This book is about one person's reading and what has been learnt about how the lives of other people, particularly authors, have been written in British literary biographies over the last fifty years. It understands biography as an ongoing collaboration, not only between biographers and their subjects, but between biographers and their readers.
This book is about one person's reading and what has been learnt about how the lives of other people, particularly authors, have been written in Briti...