Biography

A Brief History

Nigel Hamilton

    Prologue

    1. Evolutionary Biography

    2. Hagiography

    3. The Renaissance of Biography

    4. Victorian Pseudobiography

    5. The Early Twentieth Century

    6. The Rise of Film

    7. The People's War

    8. Death of the Author

    9. New Directions

    10. Biography Comes of Age

    11. Biography on Trial

    12. The Miner's Canary

    13. Biography Today

    Epilogue

    Notes

    Bibliography

    Acknowledgments

    Index

  • Cover: Biography
  • A photo of the author

Nigel Hamilton is the author of prize-winning biographies of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and of John F. Kennedy. He is currently a Fellow of the McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston, where he is writing a three-volume biography of President Clinton.