@article{337100,
      author = {Lee, Hermione.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/337100},
      title = {Biography : a very short introduction /},
      publisher = {Oxford University Press,},
      abstract = {From the Publisher: Hermione Lee is one of the leading  literary biographers in the English-speaking world, the  author of widely acclaimed lives of Edith Wharton and  Virginia Woolf.  Now, in this Very Short Introduction, Lee  provides a magnificent look at the genre in which she is an  undisputed master-the art of biography.  Here Lee considers  the cultural and historical background of different types  of biographies, looks at the factors that affect  biographers, and asks whether there are different  strategies, ethics, and principles required for writing  about one person compared to another.  She also discusses  contemporary biographical publications and considers what  kind of "lives" are the most popular and in demand.  And  along the way, she answers such questions as why do certain  people and historical events arouse so much interest?  How  can biographies be compared with history and works of  fiction?  Does a biography need to be true?  Is it  acceptable to omit or conceal things?  Does the biographer  need to personally know the subject?  Must a biographer be  subjective?},
      recid = {337100},
      pages = {xiii, 170 p. :},
      address = {Oxford ;},
      year = {2009},
}