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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