Lives for Sale by Mark Bostridge

Lives for Sale by Mark Bostridge

Biography is well recognised as a peculiarly British vice. This new anthology is a collection of essays by some of the best biographers now writing in Britain. They tell of the ups and downs of life writing: of problems with families and friends of their subjects, of shocking new discoveries, and of bitter professional rivalries. Essays in favour of biography, others that describe disenchantment with an attempt to capture another human being in the pages of a book. First published in the autumn of 2004 - to coincide with the appearance of the most important British publishing enterprise of the new century to date, the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - this new in paperback edition of Lives For Sale is full of amusing anecdotes and fascinating experiences retold by some of the masters of the form, including Michael Holroyd, Claire Tomalin, Fiona MacCarthy, Graham Robb, Andrew Roberts, Hermione Lee, Margaret Forster, Jenny Uglow, Antonia Fraser, as well as contributions from the rising generation, and an essay by Beryl Bainbridge on 'Waiting for the Biographer'.

"An impressive group of writers" Sunday Telegraph; "A valuable compendium of the biographer's art by some of the leading practitioners" Catholic Herald; "Gently amusing and occasionally perceptive collection of biographers' confessions" Guardian"

Mark Bostridge's books include Vera Brittain: A Life, shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award, the NCR Prize for Non-Fiction, and the Fawcett Prize, and the bestselling Letters From a Lost Generation. He is currently writing a biography of Florence Nightingale.

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ISBN 13	9780826487841
ISBN 10	082648784X
Title	Lives for Sale
Author	Mark Bostridge
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2005-09-10
Number of pages	240
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