Biography literary formatting
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The Challenges of Writing in the Biography Format
How do you approach the writing of biography at the end of the first quarter of the twenty-first century? A simple enough question, with a straightforward answer, one would have thought.
Biography literary formatting
After all, no country has a stronger or prouder tradition of biographical writing. The names of famous past biographers trip off the tongue: Aubrey, Johnson, Boswell, Mrs Gaskell, Strachey.
Furthermore, the attraction of biography to the reader seems easy to pinpoint.
It appeals to our innate curiosity about human personality. As Coleridge understood it, more than two centuries ago, ‘An inquisitiveness into the minutest and casual sayings of eminent contemporaries is quite natural’.
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Biography also satisfies our interest in factual knowledge, in feeding our somewhat naïve belief that we can find out ‘exactly what happened’.
So why then is biography currently failing? It’s less visible on publishers’ lists and in reviews in newspapers.
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