Works on Paper by Michael Holroyd

Works on Paper by Michael Holroyd

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Biographer Michael Holroyd begins a startling attack on biography, which is answered by two essays on the ethics and values of non-fiction writing. The book then goes on to examine the work of several contemporary biographers, the place of biography in fiction, and fiction in biography.

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Works on Paper by Michael Holroyd

Biographer Michael Holroyd begins a startling attack on biography, which is answered by two essays on the ethics and values of non-fiction writing. The book then goes on to examine the work of several contemporary biographers, the place of biography in fiction, and fiction in biography.
Michael Holroyd is the author of numerous biographies including Lytton Strachey, Augustus John and George Bernard Shaw. BASIL STREET BLUES (September 1999), his family autobiography, garnered 50per cent more end-of-year critics' choices than any other work of non-fiction that year.
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ISBN 13 9780316856782
ISBN 10 0316856789
Title Works on Paper
Author Michael Holroyd
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Little, Brown & Company
Year published 2002-01-17
Number of pages 336
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