Is Biography True?
Is Biography True?
Contributor(s): John Matteson (Translator)Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: biography; truth; theory of biography; practice of biography; immersion; a biographer’s tale; panel discussion; New York University; The Center for the Study of Transformative Lives;Pulitzer Prize;
Summary/Abstract: On March 25, 2015,The Center for the Study of Transformative Lives at New York University and the NYU Biography Seminar co-hosted a panel discussion titled Is Biography True? Introduced by Philip Kunhardt and hosted by the late James Atlas, the panel featured three Pulitzer Prize winning biographers: Ron Chernow, author of Washington: A Life; John Matteson, author of Eden’s Outcasts:The Story of Louisa May Alcott and her Father; and Stacy Schiff, author of Vera, Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov. The following is a transcript of that discussion; click or scan the code below to watch it.
Journal: ER(R)GO. Teoria-Literatura-Kultura
- Issue Year: 2/2021
- Issue No: 43
- Page Range: 37-63
- Page Count: 28
- Language: English