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9780198299950
"[Backscheider] writes a fluent, good-humored, often humorous prose, she wears her extraordinary erudition as lightly as a scarf, and her aims are disarmingly pragmatic: to offer a practical guide to the novice biographer based on her personal experience--a prize-winning biography of Defoe--and a remarkable range of intelligent reading (her bibliography is a treasure trove)."Backscheider, Paula R. is the author of 'Reflections on Biography' with ISBN 9780198299950 and ISBN 0198299958.
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