For thousands of years we have recorded real lives--the lives of others, and of ourselves. For what purpose and for whom has this universal and timeless pursuit endured? What obstacles have lain in the path of biographers in the past, and what continues to confound biographers...
In 'Biography', award-winning biographer and teacher Nigel Hamilton addresses many related questions in an incisive and vivid narrative that will appeal to students of human nature and self-representation across the arts and sciences.