Biography: Writing Lives
- ISBN-10
- 1000101207
- ISBN-13
- 9781000101201
- Series
- Biography
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-10-28
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Catherine N. Parke
Description
Catherine Parke explores biography through detailed examinations of Samuel Johnson, Virginia Woolf, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein and other masters of the genre.
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- 2013-10
- 624 pages
- Paperback
- Nabu Press
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