Biography brainstorm

For the next ten days, I shall be blogging only about biography. On 21 October Harvey Pitcher, the doyen of Chekhov studies in this country, will present a guest post about George Calderon’s famous Introduction to his pioneering translations of The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard (1912), and on 4 November, the anniversary of Wilfred Owen’s death, Damian Grant, Visiting Professor at the Universities of Burgundy and Lille 3, will post about Owen’s commemoration in France.

I intend to write mainly about very recent biographies, because as a biographer myself (momentarily) I have to keep abreast of what others are doing; but I shall definitely look at Percy Lubbock’s 1921 George Calderon: A Sketch from Memory, and probably refer to other biographies from the past.

These posts will not be reviews, they will be discussing aspects and issues of contemporary biography. This is because, as followers of Calderonia in March, April and May 2015 will remember, there is a lot going on at the moment in the genre of biography, it is an exciting time when all kinds of ideas are flying around, and as someone who has tried to produce an innovative sort of biography I am very interested in it all.

I am also very interested indeed in what other people’s thoughts and experiences are. So do please weigh in with Comments, both about the posts and about biographies that you have recently read/are reading!

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