Biography: A Very Short Introduction

by Hermione Lee

Book Overview

Hermione Lee is one of the leading literary biographers in the English-speaking world, the author of widely acclaimed lives of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf. Now, in this Very Short Introduction, Lee provides a magnificent look at the genre in which she is an undisputed master--the art of biography. Here Lee considers the cultural and historical background of different types of biographies, looks at the factors that affect biographers, and asks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0092JGF9U
• ISBN13: 9780199533541
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.3" x 6.8"