Biography as a literary form

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• Authorship
• Prose literature
• Biography

• Autobiography

• Biography -- History and criticism
• Biography -- Technique

• Declarations of Independency in Eighteenth-Century American Autobiography (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1998), by Susan Clair Imbarrato (PDF files at Newfound Press)
• Last Lectures by Wilfrid Ward: Being the Lowell Lectures, 1914, and Three Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution, 1915 (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and co., 1918), by Wilfrid Ward, ed. by Mrs. Wilfrid Ward and Maisie Ward (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lytton Strachey (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1943), by Max Beerbohm (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• May Her Likes Be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt (2001), by Marilyn Booth (HTML at UC Press)

• Declarations of Independency in Eighteenth-Century American Autobiography (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1998), by Susan Clair Imbarrato (PDF files at Newfound Press)
• Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), ed. by Dwight F. Reynolds (HTML at UC Press)

• Times of Our Lives, by Michael Oke (HTML with commentary at HowTo)
• Write Your Life Story, by Michael Oke (HTML with commentary at HowTo)

• Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women’s Autobiographical Acts (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2004), by Laura L. Bush (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Auto/Biography (British Sociological Association journal; volumes online cover 2004-2006) (partial serial archives)

• Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women’s Autobiographical Acts (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2004), by Laura L. Bush (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• The Mary Carleton Narratives, 1663-1673: A Missing Chapter in the History of the English Novel (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1914), ed. by Ernest Bernbaum (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1854), by Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee (HTML and TEI at UNC)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Act of Writing: A Media Theory Approach, by Daniel Chandler (Word 6.0 with commentary in the UK)
• The Art of Inventing Characters (Franklin, OH: J. K. Reeve, 1922), by Georges Polti, trans. by Lucille Ray (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art of Story Writing: Facts and Information About Literary Work of Practical Value of Both Amateur and Professional Writers (New York: Sully and Kleinteich, 1913), by Nathaniel C. Fowler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Author's Craft, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• Awaken the Writer Within, by Cathy Birch (HTML with commentary at HowTo)
• Beyond Life: Dizain des Demiurges (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1919), by James Branch Cabell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books Fatal to Their Authors, by P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg text)
• Chats on Feature Writing: By Members of the Blue Pencil Club of Professional Writers, Including a Selection of Special Articles, With Interpretative Comment (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1925), by H. F. Harrington, contrib. by Chester Sanders Lord (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conjectures on Original Composition, by Edward Young (HTML at Toronto)
• The Craftsmanship of Writing (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1920), by Frederic Taber Cooper (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Essays in the Art of Writing, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text)
• The Fiction Factory: Being the Experience of a Writer Who, for Twenty-Two Years, Has Kept a Story-Mill Grinding Successfully (Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Company, c1912), by William Wallace Cook (page images at Google; US access only)
• How to Write and Sell a Novel (revised from Why Write a Novel?; New York: Woodford Press, 1948), by Jack Woodford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Principles of Success in Literature, by George Henry Lewes (Gutenberg text)
• The Psychology of Writing Success (New York: The Business bourse, 1933), ed. by J. George Frederick, contrib. by A. A. Brill, Thyra Samter Winslow, Mary Hunter Austin, Floyd Dell, and Thomas H. Uzzell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Stories Editors Buy and Why (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1921), ed. by Jean Wick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Trials of Authorship: Anterior Forms and Poetic Reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Jonathan V. Crewe (HTML at UC Press)
• Writing in a New Convertible With the Top Down: A Unique Guide for Writers (Libertary edition, with links to followon articles; c2009), by Sheila Bender and Christi Killien (HTML with commentary at Booktrope)

• Six Characters in Search of an Author, by Luigi Pirandello, trans. by Edward Storer (HTML at Eldritch Press)

• The Celebrity, by Winston Churchill (Gutenberg text)
• The Country of the Pointed Firs (21-chapter version), by Sarah Orne Jewett (Gutenberg text)
• The Country of the Pointed Firs (24-chapter version, 1910), by Sarah Orne Jewett (HTML at Bartleby)
• New Grub Street, by George Gissing
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• "1001 Places to Sell Manuscripts" (Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Co., c1915), ed. by William Reno Kane (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 88 Ways to Make Money by Writing (Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Co., c1917), by Homer Croy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Five Hundred Places to Sell Manuscripts: A Manual Designed for the Guidance of Writers in Disposing of Their Work (first edition; Franklin, OH: Chronicle Press, c1894), ed. by James Knapp Reeve (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Five Hundred Places to Sell Manuscripts: A Manual Designed for the Guidance of Writers in Disposing of Their Work (fourth edition; Franklin, OH: Editor Pub. Co., 1900), ed. by James Knapp Reeve (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lure of the Pen: A Book for Would-Be Authors (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920), by Flora Klickmann (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The New 1001 Places to Sell Manuscripts: A Complete Guide for All Writers Who are Seeking Avenues for the Publication of Original Manuscripts (Franklin, OH: James Knapp Reeve, 1922), ed. by James Knapp Reeve and Agnes M. Reeve (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Practical Hints for Young Writers, Readers, and Book Buyers (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1897), by Frederic Lawrence Knowles (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Truth About Writing: An Essential Handbook for Novelists, Playwrights, and Screenwriters (c2003), by Michael Allen (PDF in the UK)
• Where to Sell Manuscripts: An Alphabetical and Classified List Arranged for the Writer's Convenience (New York: Hannis Jordan Co., 1915), by Hannis Jordan Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Writing for the Magazines (Springfield, MA: Home Correspondence School, c1916), by J. Berg Esenwein (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Writing for the Quality Market: A Scientific Analysis of Eight Quality Magazines Showing Requirements, Policy and Slanting (New York: Publications Division, Literary America, c1935) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992), by Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse (HTML at UC Press)

• How to Fail in Literature: A Lecture, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)

• Personal Reminiscences in Book-Making, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• Plug Your Book! Online Book Marketing for Authors (2007), by Steve Weber (HTML at weberbooks.com)

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