Life writing

Haslam, Sara and Neale, Derek (2009). Life writing. Abingdon: Routledge.

URL: http://www.routledgeliterature.com/books/Life-Writ...

Abstract

A practice-based guide to life writing, with exercises, examples and interviews with well known biographers and autobiographers. It covers such topics as writing what you know; the borders between biography and autobiography and between these genres and fiction; using prefaces; finding a form; using memory; developing characters; using novelistic, poetic and dramatic techniques.

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• Item ORO ID
• 18785
• Item Type
• Book
• ISBN
• 0-415-46155-3, 978-0-415-46155-9
• Keywords
• life writing; autobiography; biography; memoir; memory; fiction; creative writing; poetry; drama.
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > English & Creative Writing
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
• Research Group
• Contemporary Cultures of Writing
• Copyright Holders
• © The Open University, © 2009 Routledge
• Related URLs
• • http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/english/neale...
• Depositing User
• Derek Neale