LibGuides: Biography Research Guide: Biography as a Literary Form

Books available at WSU

Reflections on Biography by Paula R. Backscheider
Call Number: CT21 .B28 1999
ISBN: 9780198186410
Publication Date: 2000-03-23
How to Make It as a Woman by Alison Booth
ISBN: 0226065464
Publication Date: 2004-11-25
Constructing American Lives by Scott E. Casper
ISBN: 0807847658
Publication Date: 1999-04-26
Writing Lives by Leon Edel
Call Number: CT21.E33 1985
ISBN: 0393303829
Publication Date: 1987-04-17
Biography by Hermione Lee
Call Number: CT21 .L365 2009
ISBN: 0199533547
Publication Date: 2009-08-31
The Domestication of Genius by Julian North
Call Number: PR756.B56 N67 2009
ISBN: 0199571988
Publication Date: 2010-01-18
Biography by Carl Rollyson
Call Number: CT21 .R585 2008
ISBN: 1566637805
Publication Date: 2008-03-13
Reading Biography by Carl Rollyson
Call Number: CT21 .R65 2004
ISBN: 0595337473
Publication Date: 2004-11-01
Extraordinary Lives by Robert A. Caro; David W. McCullough; Paul C. Nagel; Ronald Steel; Jean Strouse; William Zinsser (Introduction by)
ISBN: 0828112061
Publication Date: 1986-05-01
Truth to Life by A. O. J. Cockshut
Call Number: CT21.C58 1974b
ISBN: 0151913226
Publication Date: 1974-09-01
Literary Biography by Leon Edel
Call Number: CT21.E3
Publication Date: 1957
The Nature of Biography by John A. Garraty
Call Number: CT21.G3
Publication Date: 1957
The Nature of Biography by Robert Gittings
Call Number: CT21.G5
ISBN: 0295956046
Publication Date: 1978-10-01
Development of English Biography by Harold Nicolson
Call Number: CT21.N5
Publication Date: 1928
The Literary Biography by Dale Salwak (Editor)
Call Number: CT21.L52 1996
ISBN: 0877455538
Publication Date: 1996-10-01
Brief American Lives by Donald C. Yelton
Call Number: CT21.Y42
ISBN: 0810811146
Publication Date: 1978-07-01

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Writing Biography by Lloyd E. Ambrosius (Editor)
ISBN: 9780803210660
Publication Date: 2004-05-01
Doing Collective Biography by Davies, Bronwyn, and Susanne Gannon
ISBN: 9780335229659
Publication Date: 2006-08-01
Biography by Nigel Hamilton
Call Number: CT31 .H2
ISBN: 9780674038226
Publication Date: 2009-06-01
Both eBook and print.
How to Do Biography by Nigel Hamilton
Call Number: CT22 .H36 2008
ISBN: 9780674038219
Publication Date: 2009-06-01
Both eBook and print.
Writing Lives by Kevin Sharpe; Steven N. Zwicker
ISBN: 9780191550898
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Uncovering Lives by Alan C. Elms
ISBN: 0195354338
Publication Date: 1994-01-01
European Connections by Susan Tridgell
ISBN: 9783035302196
Publication Date: 2011-12-08