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In addition to her biographies
on Woolf, Cather, and Wharton, Hermione Lee has written extensively
on issues associated with life-writing. She is the author of
Biography: A Very Short Introduction for Oxford University
Press, in which she considers the cultural and historical background
of different types of biographies, looking at the factors that
affect biographers and whether there are different strategies,
ethics, and principles required for writing about one person
compared to another. She also considers contemporary biographical
publications and considers what kind of 'lives' are the most
popular and in demand.
Her book Body
Parts: Essays on Life-writing is a collection of essays that
examines the problems of reading and writing biography and explores
the relationship between biography and fiction. Looking at writer's
lives in connection with their work, Lee raises profound and intriguing
issues about aspects of writing and reading a life.
MeettheAuthor.co.uk
Watch this short video in which Hermione Lee
discusses the subject and development of her new book Biography:
A Very Short Introduction. (3:16)
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Oxford
University Press
ISBN13: 9780199533541
ISBN10: 0199533547
Paperback, 144 pages
UK:
July 2009 (£7.99)
Canada:
August 2009 ($11.95)
US:
August 2009 ($11.95)
Purchase online at OUP
UK, OUP
US, OUP Canada, Amazon.co.uk,
Amazon.com
and Waterstones.
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Read
the first chapter of Body Parts: