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  • Formāts: 288 pages
  • Sērija : Writers and Artists Companions
  • Izdošanas datums: 10-Oct-2013
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  • Valoda: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781472524256
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  • Formāts: 288 pages
  • Sērija : Writers and Artists Companions
  • Izdošanas datums: 10-Oct-2013
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Life Writing: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing biography, autobiography and memoir.

PART 1 explores the history and forms of life writing and the challenges and potential pitfalls of the genre.

PART 2 includes tips by bestselling writers: Diana Athill, Alan Bennett, Alain de Botton, Jill Dawson, Millicent Dillon, Margaret Drabble, Geoff Dyer, Victoria Glendinning, Lyndall Gordon, Peter Hayter, Richard Holmes, Michael Holroyd, Kathryn Hughes, Diane Johnson, Hermione Lee, Andrew Lownie, Janet Malcolm, Alexander Masters, Nancy Milford, Blake Morrison, Andrew Morton, Clare Mulley, Jenni Murray, Nicholas Murray, Kristina Olsson, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, Meryle Secrest, Miranda Seymour, Frances Spalding, Hilary Spurling, Boyd Tonkin, Edmund White.

PART 3 includes practical advice - from planning, researching and interviewing to writing, pacing and navigating ethical issues.

Recenzijas

Fascinating, wide-ranging, hugely knowledgeable - an indispensable guide and a beguiling education * William Boyd * 'For anyone who has ever read a biography or memoir, or thought of writing one - this book of advice from the best writers in the UK is an instant classic' * Elaine Showalter, July 2010 * 'a useful and level-headed primer' * Literary Review (September 2010) *

Papildus informācija

Including advice from bestselling writers, this is a complete guide to writing memoirs, autobiography and biography.
Foreword xiii
Michael Holroyd
Preface xv
Life Writing: A Writers' & Artists' Companion xvi
Part One Life Writing xvi
Part Two Tips & tales xvii
Part Three Write on xviii
Introduction 1(2)
Why do people read life writing?
1(2)
Part 1 Life Writing
3(98)
Reflections 1
5(17)
Carole Angier
1 A note
5(1)
2 Alarums and invasions
6(3)
3 Ethics and legality
9(4)
4 Truth and objectivity
13(4)
5 Art and evidence
17(5)
Reflections 2
22(25)
Sally Cline
1 Reflections on the role of a life writer
22(7)
2 Reflections on myth and memory
29(6)
3 Reflections on truth
35(7)
4 Reflections on telling stories, telling facts
42(5)
Tradition
47(54)
Biography
47(1)
Carole Angier
Beginnings
47(2)
Middle Ages
49(1)
The Renaissance
50(1)
The seventeenth century
51(2)
The early eighteenth century
53(1)
The eighteenth century: the arrival of modern biography
54(2)
Victorian blight
56(1)
The early twentieth century
57(1)
Between the wars
58(1)
The post-war period
59(2)
Biography in fiction
61(3)
Carole Angier
Autobiography
64(1)
Sally Cline
What is autobiography?
64(3)
Why do people write autobiographies?
67(1)
Where to start
68(2)
History and development of contemporary autobiographies
70(2)
Are all autobiographies written by their subjects?
72(2)
Autobiographical writing in other genres
74(1)
Sally Cline
Changes
74(1)
Autobiographical novels
74(4)
Autobiography in creative non-fiction
78(1)
Autobiographical poetry
79(1)
Exploitation
80(2)
Memoir 1
82(1)
Carole Angier
Travel and adventure
83(3)
War and Holocaust
86(1)
Frauds, fakes and fiction
87(3)
Memoir 2
90(1)
Sally Cline
What distinguishes memoir from autobiography?
90(1)
Types of memoirs
90(1)
Family and childhood memoirs
91(1)
Misery memoirs
92(2)
Illness
94(4)
Diaries, blogs, twitters
98(3)
Carole Angier
Part 2 Tips and tales - guest contributions
101(52)
Diana Athill
103(2)
Alan Bennett
105(1)
Alain de Botton
105(2)
Jill Dawson
107(1)
Millicent Dillon
108(2)
Margaret Drabble
110(1)
Geoff Dyer
111(2)
Victoria Glendinning
113(1)
Lyndall Gordon
114(2)
Peter Hayter
116(1)
Richard Holmes
117(3)
Michael Holroyd
120(1)
Kathryn Hughes
121(1)
Diane Johnson
122(2)
Hermione Lee
124(2)
Andrew Lownie
126(1)
Janet Malcolm
127(2)
Alexander Masters
129(1)
Nancy Milford
130(1)
Blake Morrison
131(2)
Andrew Morton
133(1)
Clare Mulley
134(1)
Jenni Murray
135(2)
Nicholas Murray
137(2)
Kristina Olsson
139(1)
Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
140(2)
Meryle Secrest
142(2)
Miranda Seymour
144(1)
Frances Spalding
145(3)
Hilary Spurling
148(1)
Boyd Tonkin
149(2)
Edmund White
151(2)
Part 3 Write on
153(86)
Planning
155(33)
Important general points for all life writers
155(1)
1 Planning a biography
156(1)
How to choose a subject
156(2)
Checking out
158(1)
Level of work
159(1)
Extra skills you may need to acquire
159(1)
Types of biography
160(1)
Practical issues, especially cost
161(2)
2 Planning a memoir
163(1)
Cost of writing memoirs
164(1)
3 Planning an autobiography
165(1)
Cost of writing an autobiography
165(1)
4 When you have decided on your biography, memoir or autobiography
166(2)
Planning proposals for biography, autobiography and memoir
168(1)
Choosing titles for biography, autobiography and memoir
169(1)
Grants and other sources of funding for biography, autobiography and memoir
170(1)
Other helpful information at the general planning stage
171(1)
Mentoring
171(1)
Literary consultancies
172(1)
Courses
172(1)
Journals
173(1)
Organisations
173(2)
Planning your writing - all genres
175(1)
1 Referential matter
175(1)
2 Use of preface and prologue for biographies, memoirs and autobiographies
175(1)
Preface
175(1)
Prologue or introduction for biographies, autobiographies and memoirs
176(1)
3 Structure
177(1)
Biography
177(4)
Biography and memoir
181(3)
Autobiography
184(2)
Chapter breakdown in all genres
186(2)
Research
188(20)
A Where to go
188(1)
Basic printed resources
188(1)
National archives
189(1)
Local archives
189(2)
Libraries & museums
191(1)
Libraries
191(1)
University libraries
192(1)
Public libraries
192(1)
Other libraries
192(2)
Museums
194(1)
Online sources
195(1)
B What to do
196(1)
For biography
197(1)
C Other things to do in the research period
198(1)
Copyright research
198(1)
For autobiography and memoir
199(2)
D Interviewing for all the genres
201(1)
What to think about when interviewing
202(4)
E The last thing to thing to think about before writing
206(1)
For biography
207(1)
For autobiography and memoir
207(1)
Writing
208(31)
Where to start
208(1)
Managing time in all the genres
209(1)
1 Narration in autobiography and memoir
209(1)
2 Narration in biography
210(1)
Viewpoint in biography
211(3)
Truth in biography
214(1)
Truth in autobiography and memoir
215(2)
Ethics in all genres
217(3)
How to manage balance
220(1)
1 Balancing empathy and detachment
220(1)
2 Balancing accuracy and elegance
221(2)
How to manage fictional techniques
223(1)
Description
223(1)
Dialogue
223(1)
For biography
223(1)
For memoir and autobiography
224(2)
Suspense
226(1)
Pace and narrative drive
227(1)
Rhythm and variation
228(1)
Conflict
228(1)
Characterisation
229(1)
Imagery and symbolism
229(2)
Irony and humour
231(1)
Playing with order
232(1)
Playing with tense
233(2)
Good openings
235(1)
Satisfying endings
236(2)
What to avoid in all writing
238(1)
Acknowledgements 239(2)
Permissions 241(1)
Address list 242(2)
Bibliography 244(15)
Index 259
Sally Cline award-winning biographer, short story writer and winner of the BBC short story contest, is the author of ten books, including ground-breaking biographies of Radclyffe Hall, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Advisory Fellow for the Royal Literary Fund and a judge and mentor for the Arts Council Escalator scheme. She has an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Anglia Ruskin University, where she is Writer in Residence and a mentor on the MA in Creative Writing.

Carole Angier is the biographer of Jean Rhys: Life & Work (shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and winner of a Writers' Guild Non-Fiction Award) and The Double Bond: A Life of Primo Levi. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She has edited several books of refugee writing, and teaches life writing at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.
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