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Impossible Craft

Impossible Craft

by Scott Donaldson

Biography as a literary formAuthors, biographyAuthors, americanAuthorsBiography
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"Explores the challenges and rewards faced by literary biographers. Details the author's experiences writing the lives of writers including Edwin Arlington Robinson, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Cheever, and Archibald MacLeish"--Provided by publisher.

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Biography as a literary formAuthors, biographyAuthors, americanAuthorsBiographyAuthorship

Author

Scott Donaldson

Pages

296

Read time

≈ 7h

Editions

2

Language

English

Publisher

Pennsylvania State University Press

ISBN

9780271065298

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