Ghost Stories – On Writing Biography Adamson Paperback John Wiley & Sons
McGill-Queen's University Press
Ghost StoriesOn Writing Biography\nAuthor(s): Judith Adamson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada\nImprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\nISBN-13: 9780228021032, 978-0228021032\nSynopsis\nA biographer is, in a sense, the ghostwriter of someone elses life, trying to keep out of the way but inevitably leaving an imprint and being changed in the enterprise. In her memoir Judith Adamson, a professional biographer, tells the ghosts side of the story.\n\nAdamson reveals the questions she asked herself as she researched and wrote, as well as the personal challenges she faced in producing a lively sense of the figure she was recreating on the page, drawing an unbreakable connection between the personal and the professional. Crossing paths with literary luminaries of the twentieth century, she went on to collaborate with Graham Greene on Reflections, the last of his books published in his lifetime. She recounts how she was entrusted with the publication of.
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