Lives for Sale - Bostridge, Mark
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Biography is well recognized as a peculiarly British vice. Here in this new anthology is a collection of essays, never published before, by some of the best biographers now writing. They tell of the ups and downs of life writing: of problems with families and friends of their subjects, and of shocking new discoveries. Essays in favour of biography, others that describe disenchantment with an attempt to capture another human being in the pages of a book. Published in the autumn of 2004--to coincide with the appearance of the most important British publishing enterprise of the new century to…mehr

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Biography is well recognized as a peculiarly British vice. Here in this new anthology is a collection of essays, never published before, by some of the best biographers now writing. They tell of the ups and downs of life writing: of problems with families and friends of their subjects, and of shocking new discoveries. Essays in favour of biography, others that describe disenchantment with an attempt to capture another human being in the pages of a book. Published in the autumn of 2004--to coincide with the appearance of the most important British publishing enterprise of the new century to date, the New Dictionary of National Biography--Lives for Sale is full of amusing anecdotes and fascinating experiences retold by some of the masters of the form, including Claire Tomalin, Michael Holroyd, Fiona MacCarthy, Graham Robb, Ben Pimlott, Andrew Roberts, Hermione Lee, Richard Holmes, Antonia Fraser, as well as contributions from the rising generation.
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Autorenporträt
Mark Bostridge's books include Vera Brittain: A Life, shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Prize, the NCR Award for Non-Fiction and the Fawcett Prize, the bestselling Letters from a Lost Generation, Florence Nightingale . The Woman and Her Legend, awarded the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, and The Fateful Year, England 1914, shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. His biography of Adèle Hugo In Pursuit of Love, was published by Bloomsbury Continuum in 2024. He has written widely for national newspapers and journals, and appeared on television and radio.