Writing lives : American biography and autobiography /

Introduction / Hans Bak and Hans Krabbendam; PART I: AUTOBIOGRAPHY. John Fitch and the origins of American autobiography / Stephen C. Arch; The Franklin-Stein monster: ventriloquism and missing persons in American autobiography / Richard Hardack; Posthumous life and the alibi of autobiography: the Adams memorial / Duco van Oostrum; Mary Antin's "Biomythography" / Kathleen Ashley; (Im)possible lives: Zelda Fitzgerald's 'Save me the waltz' as surrealist autobiography / Susan Castillo; Competing notions of American and artistic identity in visual and written autobiographies in the 1930s and early 1940s / Donna M. Cassidy; 'Dust tracks on a road': Zora Neale Hurston's autobiography and the rhetoric of "Feather-bed resistance" / Nicole E. Reith; Howard Fast and the shape of the political memoir / David Seed; From memories of childhood to intellectual memoirs, or from Mary McCarthy to "Mary McCarthy" / Isabel Durán; "True story" novels as autobiography: the influence of 'the shadow' on Jack Kerouac's 'Doctor Sax' / Ann Charters; Representing shame / Madeleine Sorapure; The autobiography of guilt: Tim O'Brien and Vietnam / Mary A. McCay; Ethnicities: the American self-tellings of Leslie Marmon Silko, Richard Rodriguez, Darryl Pinckney, and Garrett Hongo / A. Robert Lee; Native American autobiography as "Art" / Hartwig Isernhagen; Travel writing as autobiography: the case of Eddy L. Harris / Ineke Bockting;PART II: BIOGRAPHY. Biography as interdisciplinary art / Joan D. Hedrick; Forever riding with Stonewall: three approaches to Henry Kyd Douglas / Anneke Leenhouts; The Cabot lodges: A family portrait / Alfons Lammers; Making biography out of Mencken / Fred Hobson; Radical feminist or handmaiden? Fact and fiction in Susan Glaspell's life / Barbara Ozieblo; The quest for Bogart / Jeffrey Meyers; The missing civil rights in Eleanor Roosevelt's autobiographies / Mieke van Thoor; "Playing with the news": Jonathan Daniels on Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman / Hans Veldman; Discontinuity and coherence in the short biography: Arthur J. Goldberg and the OSS Labor Branch / Bob Reinalda; Creating a group identity: the New York intellectuals / Tity de Vries; Jimmy Carter: the missionary man / Douglas Brinkley; Oral biography in print and broadcast / David K. Dunaway; A telling existence: writing gay biography / Axel Nissen; 'Still' telling women's lives / Linda Wagner-Martin; notes on contributors; Index