Watercolor study for Portrait of Madame X by John Singer Sargent, 1883 13. Photo of Abraham Lincoln by Alexander Gardner, 1863 12. Cartoon of Lord Byron by Max Beerbohm, 1904 11. Oil portrait of Samuel Johnson by Henry Wallis, 1854 10. Engraved portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh by Simon de Passe, 1614 9. Engraving of Saint Jerome by Albrecht Dürer, 1514 8. Ivory representation of Christ on the Cross, 400 a.d. Double-headed bust of Sophocles and Aristophanes, fourth century b.c. Portrait of an unknown Egyptian lady, ca. Flood Tablet of The Epic of Gilgamesh, seventh century b.c. Cave painting of a prehistoric hunter, ca. Prologue Evolutionary Biography Hagiography The Renaissance of Biography Victorian Pseudobiography The Early Twentieth Century The Rise of Film The People’s War Death of the Author New Directions Biography Comes of Age Biography on Trial The Miner’s Canary Biography Today Epilogueġ 6 33 60 100 129 168 186 206 213 222 242 251 279 292 Includes bibliographical references and index. Harvard university press Cambridge, Massachusetts Ĭopyright © 2007 by Nigel Hamilton All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hamilton, Nigel, 1944– Biography : a brief history / Nigel Hamilton p.
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