Lives for Sale Biographers' Tales

Lives for Sale is a collection of new essays by many of the best established and rising biographers now writing. These biographers' tales, based on personal experience, tell of the ups and downs of life writing: of shocking discoveries and frustrating dead ends, strange literary hauntings and curses, bitter professional rivalries and problems with families and friends of biographical subjects, and of ways in which the biographer's imagination can be inspired by a sense of place or the touch of a letter.