Originally published: Washington : New Republic Books, 1979.
Contents:
The biographer himself / Marc Patcher -- The figure under the carpet / Leon Edel -- The naked self and other problems / Justin Kaplan -- Minor lives / Geoffrey Wolff -- The self as history / Alfred Kazin -- Angles of vision / Doris Kearns -- Stepping over cockleburs / Theodore Rosengarten -- Biography as a prism of history / Barbara E. Tuchman.
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