Biography by Hermione Lee

Biography by Hermione Lee

Biographies are one of the most popular and best-selling of the literary genres. Why do people like them? What does a biography do and how does it work? This Very Short Introduction examines different types of biographies, why certain people and historical events arouse so much interest, and how they are compared with history and fiction.

It would be hard to think of anyone better to provide a crisp contribution to OUP's Very Short Introductions* Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian *
A sophisticated overview for the general reader. * Andrew Lycett, Literary Review *
Enjoyable book on the subject. * Henry Power, TLS *

Hermoine Lee is a well-known literary biographer, author of critical studies of Elizabeth Bowen, Willa Cather, and Philip Roth. She has also written major biographies of Virginia Woolf (1996), and Edith Wharton (2007), a selection of which was published by Princeton University Press as Virginia Woolf's Nose (2005). From 1998 to 2008 she was the Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature and a Fellow of New College at the University of Oxford. She is now President of Wolfson College.

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ISBN 13	9780199533541
ISBN 10	0199533547
Title	Biography
Author	Hermione Lee
Series	Very Short Introductions
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2009-07-09
Number of pages	192
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