Biography
A Three-Cornered Life: The Historian W.K. Hancock by Jim Davidson
by Deryck Schreuder •
Biography seems relatively easy to produce, but difficult to write well. It is therefore treated with a certain amount of suspicion by academics. Historians tend to regard it as chatty, not primarily concerned with policy or the identification of social factors; literary people are more sympathetic, but, in order to blot out the prosy or the fact-laden, tend to revert to a default position. Biography for them is basically about writers, and best written by literary academics.
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by Dean Biron •
Breaking News: The Golden age of Graham Perkin by Ben Hills
by Michael Shmith •
The Cambridge Companion to The Beatles edited by Kenneth Womack
by Linda Kouvaras •
Mark Twain: The adventures of Samuel L. Clemens by Jerome Loving
by Geordie Williamson •
Creative Lives: Personal papers of Australian writers and artists by Penelope Hanley
by Ian Morrison •