CONTRIB UTORS
COMMENT
PR
WI TER 200 I
Volul1le LXV III, IIl1lher I
CONTENTS
AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BIOGRAPHY
&
MEMOIR
INTRODUCTION
Jon Westling
Edith Kurzweil
HOW TRUE TO LIFE IS BIOGRAPHY?
Jeffrey Meyers: Writing Orwell's Biography
Michal Govrin: The Case of the Jewish Biography
Andre Aciman: Temporizing
WAYS OF WRITING ABOUT ONESELF
Norman Manea: The Past as Fiction
Leonard Michaels: The Personal and the Individual
Stanley Crouch: Blues for America
HOW TO RECAPTURE SELECTIVE MEMORIES
Jay Martin: Biographers with Blue Guitars
Conor Cruise O'Brien: Revising National Themes
Geoffrey Hartman: The New Biographical Culture
FACTS AND FICTIONS IN ALL THREE GENRES
Francine du Plessix Gray: Mothers/Daughters
Hilary Spurling: On the Smoking Ruins of Structuralism
Denis Donoghue: My Only Memoir
ARTICLES
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4
5
11
57
91
127
KIRSTEN OLSON LANIER
Conference Comment
162
CZESLAW MILOSZ
Milos z's ABC's
168
EDITH KURZWEIL
New York Film Festival
2000
178
TERRY TEACHOUT
Dance Chronicle
186
