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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Main entry under title:
Biography as high adventure.
Includes index.
1. Biography (as a literary form)Addresses,
essays, lectures. I. Oates, Stephen B.
CT21.B468 1986 808'.06692 85-20847
ISBN 0-87023-513-3 (alk. paper)
ISBN 0-87023-514-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
"Biography as a Work of Art" is reprinted from Andre[Andr] Maurois's Aspects of Biography
Nov. 19, 1956, by Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. |
| "The Figure under the Carpet" is reprinted from Telling Lives: The Biographer's Art, ed. Marc Pachter (1979); subsequently revised and published as "Myth" in Writing Lives, Principia Biographica, by Leon Edel. Reprinted by permission of the author and the publisher, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Copyright 1984, 1959 by Leon Edel. |
| "Walking the Boundaries" is reprinted from The Art of Biography by Paul Murray Kendall by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. and George Allen & Unwin. Copyright 1985 by Stephen B. Oates. Copyright 1965 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. |
| "Biography as Agent of Humanism" by Frank E. Vandiver was first presented at the 1982 Texas Lecture and Symposium on the Humanities, sponsored by the Texas Committee for the Humanities. From James F. Veninga, ed., The Biographer's Gift: Life Histories and Humanism (Texas A & M University Press, 1983). |
| "The Biographer's Relationship with His Hero," from Biography: The Craft and the Calling by Catherine Drinker Bowen, copyright 1969 by Catherine Drinker Bowen, is reprinted by permission of Little, Brown and Company and Harold Ober Associates, Incorporated. |
| "The Real Life" by Justin Kaplan was originally published in Harvard English Studies 8 (1978) 1978 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and is reprinted with the author's permission. |
| "The Burdens of Biography" by Mark Schorer was originally published in the Michigan Quarterly Review (Autumn 1962) and is reprinted with permission of Michigan Quarterly Review. |
| "Biography as a Prism of History" by Barbara Tuchman was originally published in Telling Lives: The Biographer's Art, ed. Marc Pachter (1979) and is reprinted with permission of Russell & Volkening, Inc., as agents for the author. Copyright 1979 by Barbara Tuchman. |
| "Reassembling the Dust" by Paul Mariani was originally published in the New England Review (Spring 1983). |
| "Biography as High Adventure" by Stephen B. Oates was originally published in Timeline (June-July 1985). |
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