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(1998) Writing the lives of writers, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

"Acquainted with all the modes of life"

the difficulty of biography

Isobel Grundy

pp. 107-124

The conference "Writing the Lives of Writers' made it clear that most biographers feel biography to be immensely difficult. Speaker after speaker reiterated this point with wit, with style, and with deep feeling.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26548-0_8

Full citation:

Grundy, I. (1998)., "Acquainted with all the modes of life": the difficulty of biography, in W. Gould & T. F. Staley (eds.), Writing the lives of writers, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 107-124.

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