Download or read book Telling Lives, the Biographer's Art written by Leon Edel and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven of the most honored biographers of our time--Pulizer Prize winners Justin Kaplan and Barbara Tuchman, National Book Award recipient Theodore Rosengarten, and esteemed literary critics Leon Edel, Dorris Kearns, Geoffrey Wolff, and Alfred Kazin--examine the joys, limitations, and challenges of defining a life. For the very first time, biographers interpret the art of biography.