- Introduction
- I. Getting Started
- 1. The Task of Biography
- 2. What Is Your Agenda?
- 3. Defining Your Audience
- 4. Researching Your Subject
- 5. The Shape of a Life
- II. Composing a Life-Story
- 6. The Starting Point
- 7. Birthing Your Subject
- 8. Childhood and Youth
- 9. Love Stories
- 10. Life’s Work
- 11. The Twilight Years
- 12. Ending Your Story
- III. Variations on a Theme
- 13. Autobiography and Memoirs
- 14. Memoir
- 15. Truth—and Its Consequences
- 16. The Afterlife
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
How To Do Biography
A Primer
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Publication Date: 10/22/2012
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