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From Elie Wiesel to Benjamin Wilkomirski to David Sedaris, the veracity of writers' claims has been suspect. In this fascinating and timely collection of essays, leading writers meditate on the subject of truth in literary nonfiction. As David Lazar writes in his introduction, "How do we verify? Do we care to? (Do we dare to eat the apple of knowledge and say it's true? Or is it a peach?) Do we choose to? Is it a subcategory of faith? How do you respond when someone says, 'This is really true'? Why do they choose to say it then?"

Truth in literature. --- Biography as a literary form. --- Autobiography. --- Biography --- Authorship --- Prose literature --- Autobiographies --- Autobiography --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Truth in literature --- 82-94 --- 82-94 Dagboek. Memoires. Autobiografie --- Dagboek. Memoires. Autobiografie

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Following his recent Biography: A Brief History (from Harvard), award-winning biographer and teacher Nigel Hamilton tackles the practicalities of doing biography in the first succinct primer to elucidate the tools of the biographer's craft.

Biography as a literary form. --- Biography --- Autobiography --- Biographies --- History --- Life histories --- Memoirs --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Genealogy --- Authorship --- Prose literature --- Research --- Methodology. --- Authorship. --- History and criticism --- Technique

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Histories of autobiography in England often assume the genre hardly existed before 1600. But Tudor Autobiography investigates eleven sixteenth-century English writers who used sermons, a saint's biography, courtly and popular verse, a traveler's report, a history book, a husbandry book, and a supposedly fictional adventure novel to share the secrets of the heart and tell their life stories. In the past such texts have not been called autobiographies because they do not reveal much of the inwardness of their subject, a requisite of most modern autobiographies. But, according to Meredith Anne Skura, writers reveal themselves not only by what they say but by how they say it. Borrowing methods from affective linguistics, narratology, and psychoanalysis, Skura shows that a writer's thoughts and feelings can be traced in his or her language. Rejecting the search for "the early modern self" in life writing, Tudor Autobiography instead asks what authors said about themselves, who wrote about themselves, how, and why. The result is a fascinating glimpse into a range of lived and imagined experience that challenges assumptions about life and autobiography in the early modern period.

Authors, English --- English prose literature --- Autobiography. --- Self in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Biography as a literary form. --- Biography --- Authorship --- Prose literature --- Autobiographies --- Autobiography --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- English authors --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Identity (Psychology) in literature --- Self in literature --- Biography&delete&

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In Writing the Lost Generation, Craig Monk unlocks a series of neglected texts while reinvigorating our reading of more familiar ones. Well-known autobiographies by Malcolm Cowley, Ernest Hemingway, and Gertrude Stein are joined here by works from a variety of lesser-known, but still important, expatriate American writers, including Sylvia Beach, Alfred Kreymborg, Samuel Putnam, and Harold Stearns. By bringing together the self-reflective works of the Lost Generation and probing the ways the writers portrayed themselves, Monk provides an exciting and comprehensive overview of modernist expatri

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"Examines works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whitman to explore how the emergence of photography in the mid-nineteenth century transformed their ideas, how photography mediated their conceptions of self-representation, and how their appropriation of photographic thinking created a new kind of autobiography"--Provided by publisher.

American prose literature --- Literature and photography --- Authors, American --- Photography --- Visual perception in literature. --- Photography in literature. --- Autobiography. --- Self-realization in literature. --- Autobiographies --- Autobiography --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- Photography and literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Biography --- History and criticism --- Technique