by Mark Bostridge · Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. · tapa dura · ISBN 9780826475732
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«Lives for Sale: Biographers' Tales» is the essay anthology edited by Mark Bostridge, published by Continuum in hardcover (256 pages, in English).
British biographers from different generations recount the ins and outs of the craft: dealing with the families of their subjects, false leads in research, discoveries that change everything, and professional squabbles. It includes defenses of biography and skeptical texts about the possibility of capturing a life in a book, peppered with anecdotes.
It brings together essays by 33 biographers including Michael Holroyd, Hermione Lee, Antonia Fraser, Graham Robb and Beryl Bainbridge. It was published in 2004, coinciding with the appearance of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Reading for those interested in biography as a literary genre, literature students, and anyone considering writing about other people's lives.
