Literary Lives
Biography and the Search for Understanding
by David Ellis
208 pages· 2013· ISBN 9781136057946
About
This book meditates on the nature of biography and the way biographers habitually explain their subjects' loves by reference to psychology, ancestry, childhood experience, social relations, the body, or illness.
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