Biography : a brief history /
Nigel Hamilton.
- 345 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-321) and index.
Evolutionary biography -- Hagiography -- The renaissance of biography -- Victorian pseudobiography -- The early twentieth century -- The rise of film -- The people's war -- Death of the author -- New directions -- Biography comes of age -- Biography on trial -- The miner's canary -- Biography today.