Miriam Fuchs coedits Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly and is professor of English at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. She is the author of The Text Is Myself: Women's Life Writing and Catastrophe (2004), editor of Marguerite Young, Our Darling: Tributes and Essays, and coeditor, with Ellen G. Friedman, of Breaking the Sequence: Women's Experimental Fiction (1989). She has published on modernist authors, life writing, Djuna Barnes, Emily Holmes Coleman, H.D., Patricia Grace, and Queen Lili'uokalani. Craig Howes is director of the Center for Biographical Research, the coeditor of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, and professor of English at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He is the author of Voices of the Vietnam POWs (1993) and essays on Victorian literature and life writing, including the afterword to The Ethics of Life Writing (ed. Paul John Eakin, 2004), and the coproducer of the television documentary series Biography Hawai'i.
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"Howes and Fuchs have spanned a remarkable breadth in terms of where their writers come from, the sorts of schools they teach in, and the life writing issues on which they focus. The result is a veritable gold mine for both teaching and research." --Susanna Egan, author, Mirror Talk: Genres of Crisis in Contemporary Autobiography "For both teachers and researchers in the varied areas of 'life writing', this volume in the Options for Teaching series is of tremendous value. It sets out to be as all-encompassing as possible in terms of its definition of life writing, and thus many readers are likely to encounter examples of various forms of writing the self which they have not previously considered in any great detail." --Ursula J. Fanning, University College Dublin