Biography: Questions for Consideration and Discussion
Do you think there can be set rules for biography?What do you think are the particular challenges of writing literary biography?Do you think biography should tell the whole truth? What do you think is the relationship between different kinds of “life-writing”: diaries, memoirs, letters, autobiography, biography?Could you have a biography of a river, or a city, or a disease?Do you think men’s and women’s lives have been written about in different ways, and if so, why?
