Ira B. Nadel
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Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen
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23 editions
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1994
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The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound
19 editions
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published
1999
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Cathay: Ezra Pound's Orient
4 editions
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published
2016
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Leon Uris: Life of a Best Seller
4 editions
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published
2010
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Virginia Woolf
2 editions
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published
2016
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Philip Roth: A Counterlife
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David Mamet: A Life in the Theatre
10 editions
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published
2008
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Double Act: A Life of Tom Stoppard
8 editions
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published
2002
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Leonard Cohen: A Life in Art
4 editions
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1994
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Ezra Pound: A Literary Life
6 editions
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2004
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“In many ways. . .the completeness of biography, the achievement of its professionalization, is an ironic fiction, since no life can ever be known completely, nor would we want to know every fact about an individual. Similarly, no life is ever lived according to aesthetic proportions. The "plot" of a biography is superficially based on the birth, life and death of the subject; "character," in the vision of the author. Both are as much creations of the biographer, as they are of a novelist. We content ourselves with "authorized fictions.”
― Biography: Fiction, Fact, and Form
― Biography: Fiction, Fact, and Form
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