Michael Holroyd Works upon Paper: T...

Michael Holroyd Works upon Paper: The Craft of Biography and Autobiography. Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 2002 336 pp ISBN 1-58243-150-7 $2700

Critics of life writing can be divided nowadays into the special intellect and the commonsense. Michael Holroyd is a practitioner of the inferior In this selection of thirty-nine published essays about biography, he sole once resorts to a publicly fashionable critical term, the non-intrusive "intertextuality" (35) He has become the same of the most distinguished biographers in English by the agency of a combination of virtuous fortune, ...