Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Truthful biographies	Valerie Bodden	"An introduction to the ways that writers compose biographies and autobiographies. Excerpts and analysis help to explain the importance of honesty and detail in this nonfiction form"--Provided by pub…	OL15611274W
Dictionnaire des vies privées (1722-1842)	Olivier Ferret	An overview of clandestine satirical biographies of key figures in the French 18th century followed by a dictionary of these biographies.	OL15993561W
Writing about issues	Roger Beutel	Read information on writing feature articles on issues, such as how to select a topic, gathering information, writing the first draft, revising your work, and shareing your writing.	OL16189152W
The city of your final destination	Cameron, Peter	"Omar Razaghi has made a grave error in judgment. A doctoral student at the University of Kansas, he had contacted the estate of the Latin American author Jules Gund, requesting permission to write G…	OL1841426W
Reconstructing illness	Anne Hunsaker Hawkins	xxii, 289 pages ; 22 cm	OL1926550W
The shadow in the garden	James Atlas	"The biographer's autobiography: a funny, endearing tale of how writers' lives get documented, by the celebrated chronicler of Saul Bellow and Delmore Schwartz. The biographer--so often in the shadow…	OL19715311W
Demon	Tosca Moon Lee	Lucian, a fallen angel, dictates his memoirs to a book editor, covering such topics as the creation of the universe, the fall of Lucifer, and the struggle for mankind.	OL19940000W
Your life is a book	Brenda Peterson	"Everyone has a story to tell. Learn how to write your memoir and get published with the help of two well-known publishing professionals. Your Life is a Book guides budding writers though the transfo…	OL19988007W
Let it bleed	Pamela Des Barres	"Author of the international bestseller I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie, Pamela Des Barres shares with women the art of memoir writing. For the last fourteen years, Pamela Des Barres has …	OL20055214W
Writing Hard Stories	Melanie Brooks	What does it take to write an honest memoir? And what happens to us when we embark on that journey? Melanie Brooks sought guidance from the memoirists who most moved her to answer these questions. Ca…	OL20216844W
Once autobiografías precoces y un solo proyecto	Diana Isabel Jaramillo Juárez	This is an analysis of the autobiographies of eleven Mexican writers.	OL24172815W
Biography and Source Studies	Frederick Robert Karl	No longer merely a stepchild of literary studies, history, psychology, or some other category, biography in recent years has emerged as its own discipline. Much of biography traditionally involves di…	OL261934W
The Sea House	Esther Freud	The architect Klaus Lehmann loves his wife, Elsa, with a passion that continues throughout their married life, despite long periods of separation. Almost half a century after Lehmann's death in the …	OL2684422W
Writing a woman's life	Carolyn G. Heilbrun	Drawing on the experience of celebrated women, from George Sand and Virginia Woolf to Dorothy Sayers and Adrienne Rich, Heilbrun examines the struggle these writers undertook when their drives made i…	OL2925380W
Boswell's presumptuous task	Adam Sisman	"James Boswell's Life of Johnson is the most celebrated of all biographies, acknowledged as one of the greatest and most entertaining books in the English language. And yet Boswell himself has genera…	OL3034855W
Zhongguo li dai wen ren chang pian zhuan ji xiao shuo	Xiaochuan Liu	南唐是中国历史上最混乱又最奢靡,最血腥又最文雅的时代,后主李煜在政治上偏安懦弱.本书从文人的角度来剖析后主的一生,推翻史家的论调,丝丝入扣地点评出后主仁爱,细腻,宽厚,唯美的文化品格.	OL33078081W
Erzählform und Persönlichkeitsdarstellung in deutschsprachigen Autobiographien des 16. Jahrhunder…	Stephan Pastenaci	Inhaltsverzeichnis Kapitel I Einleitung in die Fragestellung 1. Der besondere Quellenwert von Autobiographien für die Analyse individueller Denkformen 1 2. Historizität der Begriffe "In…	OL3414913W
Spiral	Joseph Geary	Nicholas Greer is broke and on the verge of divorce. The life of Frank Spira, the controversial British painter he’s been researching for six years, has become more real to him than his own. But the …	OL5959679W
A biographer at work	Harriet Kirkley	"A Biographer at Work: Johnson's Notes for the "Life of Pope" contains an edition of hitherto unpublished notes. Samuel Johnson made them as he prepared to write the text of his biographical preface …	OL6214982W