TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gillies, Midge
TI  - Writing lives: literary biography
SN  - 9780521732314
U1  - 809.93592 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Biography
KW  - Autobiography
N1  - Series Editor: Adrian Barlow
N2  - Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Writing Lives takes as its focus life writing, both autobiography and biography, discussing these genres specifically within the contexts of the lives and literary careers of writers, past and present. In addition to exploring the key characteristics of life writing, the book also examines the relationship between the lives of authors and the influence of these lives both on their own writing and on the reception of their work by contemporary and later readers. The book traces the origins of literary biography from its early roots to its position as a best-selling genre in its own right
ER  -