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Author:
Donaldson, Scott, 1928- author.
Title:
The impossible craft : literary biography / Scott Donaldson.
Publisher:
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
viii, 284 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Biography as a literary form.
Authors--Authorship.--Authorship.
Authors, American--Theory, etc.--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Biographers.
Donaldson, Scott,--1928-
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-270) and index.
Contents:
Beginnings -- Topics in literary biography -- The impossible craft -- Case studies -- The cheever misadventure.
Summary:
"Explores the challenges and rewards faced by literary biographers. Details the author's experiences writing the lives of writers including Edwin Arlington Robinson, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Cheever, and Archibald MacLeish"--Provided by publisher.
Series:
The Penn State series in the history of the book
ISBN:
0271065281 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780271065281 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)897042161
LCCN:
2014035170
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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