Table of Contents

Preface -- Chronology -- Chapter 1 Biography: An Overview of the Genre -- Chapter 2 Majority Biography 1: Samuel Johnson -- Chapter 3 Majority Biography 2: Virginia Woolf -- Chapter 4 Minority Biography: Alice James and Langston Hughes -- Chapter 5 Group and Collective Biography and Biographical Series -- Bibliographic Essay -- Notes and References -- Recommended Biographies: A Selected List -- Index.

About the Author

Catherine N. Parke teaches English and Women's Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is the author of Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking and OtherPeople's Lives.