Description
<p>Contents</p><p></p><p>Abbreviations</p><p></p><p>1	Beginnings</p><p>Biography: A Background Sketch</p><p>Becoming a Biographer</p><p>And Then I Wrote . . . </p><p>The Editor’s Hand: Hemingway</p><p>Fitzgerald and the Craft</p><p>The Amazing Archibald MacLeish</p><p>A Dual Biography of Fitz and Hem</p><p>Recovering Robinson</p><p>Other Chores, On to Fenton</p><p>2	Topics in Literary Biography</p><p>Fact and Fiction</p><p>Writers as Subjects</p><p>Ethical Issues</p><p>Sources: Letters</p><p>Sources: Interviews</p><p>3	The Impossible Craft</p><p>The Issue of Involvement</p><p>Trying to Capture Hemingway</p><p>The Mythical Ideal Biographer</p><p>What Biography Can’t Do</p><p>And Yet . . . </p><p>4	Case Studies</p><p>Telling Robinson’s Story: The Fight over a Poet’s Bones</p><p>Summer of ’24: Zelda’s Affair</p><p>Hemingway’s Battle with Biographers, 1949–1954</p><p>5	The Cheever Misadventure</p><p>Writing the Cheever</p><p>The Lawsuit</p><p>The Next Biography</p><p>Bibliography</p><p></p>
Reviews
“This well-written study belongs in the hands of every would-be or seasoned writer and every impassioned reader and teacher.”
—Dale Salwak, Biography