Life Writing

MARTIN AMIS Writer and Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester University, UKTIMOTHY C. BAKER Teacher of English and Scottish Literature, University of Edinburgh, UKSTANLEY BLACK Senior Lecturer in Spanish, University of Ulster, UK RICHARD BRADFORD Research Professor in English, University of Ulster, UKKEVIN DE ORNELLAS Lecturer in English, University of Ulster, UK RUTH FAINLIGHT WriterGRAHAM GARGETT Professor of French Culture and Ideas, University of Ulster, UKALEXIS GROHMANN Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, University of Edinburgh, UKTIM HANCOCK Lecturer in English Literature, University of Ulster, UKANDREW JAMES Lecturer in English, Chikushi Women's University, Dazaifu, JapanE. H. JONES Lecturer in French, University of Leicester, UKANDREW KEANIE Lecturer in English& History of the Irish Book, University of Ulster, UKNICOLA KING Associate Senior Lecturer in English, University of the West of England, UKCLAIRE LYNCH Completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford, UK RICHARD MAGUIRE PhD student, King's College London, UKDEIDRE O'BYRNE Lecturer in English, Loughborough University, UKDALE SALWAK Professor of English, Citrus College, California, USAALAN SILLITOE Writer D. J. TAYLOR Critic, novelist and biographerDAVID THORLEY Journalist and freelance writer

• Introduction and Acknowledgements; R.Bradford PART 1: LITERARY BIOGRAPHY In Search of Peter Quennell: Redefining the Self in Kingsley Amis's The Biographer's Moustache ; A.James Pictures and Places: Enclaves of Illusion in the Life Writings of Elizabeth Bowen and Annabel Goff; D.O'Byrne Robert Lowell and 'The Business of Direct Experience'; T.Hancock Projections of the Inner 'I': Anthony Powell, George Orwell and the Personal Myth; D.J.Taylor Goldsmith and the Art of Indirect Biography; G.Gargett Obstacles Confronting the Literary Biographer; D.Salwak Hartley Coleridge and the Art of Elf Effacement; A.Keanie 'A Horse May Show His Good Intent': Opinionated Protestant Equines from Morocco to Black Beauty; K.De Ornellas Literary Biography: The Elephant in the Academic Sitting Room; R.Bradford PART 2: VARIOUS SELVES, DIFFERENT DISCOURSES: THE BROADER CONTEXTS OF LIFE WRITING Reflections on the Timing of Juan Goytisolo's Autobiographies; S.Black Wild Realism: The Fresh Air of the Real or the Changing Face of the European Novel; A.Grohmann Autofiction: A Brief History of a Neologism; E.H.Jones Sick Diarists and Private Writers of the Seventeenth Century; D.Thorley Trans-genre Confusion: What Does Autobiography Think It Is?; C.Lynch The Art of Losing: The Place of Death in Writer's Memoirs; T.C.Barker 'The Contrived Innocence of the Surface': Representing Childhood Memory in Recent British Autobiography; N.King The Relics of St. David Wojnarowicz: The Autobiography of a Mythmaker; R.Maguire PART 3: WRITERS Alan Sillitoe Ruth Fainlight An Interview with Martin Amis Index