"A well-researched, engrossing history and critique of biographies
of women. . . . A significant and provocative contribution to
postfeminist literary criticism." --Kirkus Reviews "An insightful
introduction to the art of biography by and about women. . . .
Recommended." --Library Journal "An exhaustive survey of the
issues, problems, and ethical dilemmas faced by biographers, and .
. . a compelling reflection on the framing of any interpretive
project, on the questions of voice and perspective, selection and
organization, objectivity and invention." --Signs "This intelligent
analysis of women's biographies is insightful, fascinating, and
much needed. . . . Anyone will read women's biographies with a
fresh eye after this." --Choice "A compelling analysis of the power
structures and unspoken personal investments that define biography
as a genre and as a cultural institution." --Shari Benstock, author
of Women of the Left Bank and "No Gifts from Chance" A Biography of
Edith Wharton "An insider's view of biographers at work, complete
with lively revelations about what doesn't go into print. I read it
with pleasure and admiration." --Diane Middlebrook, author of Anne
Sexton: A Biography "A splendidly engrossing
story-about-how-to-tell-a-story. This is an engaging book of ideas
and gossip, humor and new information, people and publishing--by a
woman biographer who seems to know everything about everyone."
--Emily Toth, author of Kate Chopin: A Life of the Author of "The
Awakening" Placing herself in the avid reader's chair, Linda
Wagner-Martin writes about women's biography from George Eliot and
Virgina Woolf to Eleanor Roosevelt and Margaret Mead, and even to
Cher and Elizabeth Taylor. Along the way, she looks at dozens of
other life stories, probing at the differences between biographies
of men and women, prevailing stereotypes about women's lives and
roles, questions about what is public and private, and hazy margins
between autobiography, biography, and other genres. Linda
Wagner-Martin is Hanes Professor of English and Comparative
Literature at the University of North Carolina. She is the author
of "Favored Strangers" Gertrude Stein and Her Family, Sylvia Plath:
A Biography, and other books.
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