This is the only comprehensive, annotated bibliography of writing about
biography. Rollyson, a biographer and scholar of biography, includes
chapters on the history of biography (beginning in the Greco-Roman
period and concluding with biographers such as Leon Edel and Richard
Ellmann). Ample sections on psychobiography, the new feminist biography,
and on biographers who appear in works of fiction, are also included.
Cited in many recent books on the genre of biography, Biography: An
Annotated Bibliography, is an essential research tool as well as a
clearly written work for those wishing to browse through the commentary
on this important genre.