Sandra Mayer is a Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Vienna, Austria, and the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, UK. She has published widely on authorship and literary celebrity, (co)editing special issues on the theme for Celebrity Studies, Forum for Modern Language Studies, and Persona Studies. Julia Novak is a Research Fellow at the Department of English at the University of Vienna, Austria. She has published extensively on poetry performance and biographical fiction, including the collection Experiments in Life Writing (2017). She is an editor of the European Journal of Life Writing.

• Introduction – Life Writing and Celebrity: Exploring Intersections  1. An Austrian Auden: A Media Construction Story  2. Sergei Eisenstein as Seen by Peter Greenaway: A Dialectic Representation of an (Anti-)Great Film Director  3. Fictionalisation in Biography: Creating the Dickens Myth  4. Visual Art as Celebrity Memoir: The Paradox of Peg Woffington’s Sick-bed Portrait  5. Writing Celebrity as Disability: Las Meninas, Performing Dwarfs, and Michael Jackson Fan Day  6. ‘Boswellized From Mere Persons to Personages’: Arthur Stringer, Mary Pickford, and the Trouble with Celebrity Profile(r)s  7. ‘Watergate-ing’ Norman Mailer’s Marilyn: Life Writing in Cultural Context  8. Pacts, Paratext, and Polyphony: Writing the Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt

Sandra Mayer is a Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Vienna, Austria, and the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, UK. She has published widely on authorship and literary celebrity, (co)editing special issues on the theme for Celebrity Studies, Forum for Modern Language Studies, and Persona Studies. Julia Novak is a Research Fellow at the Department of English at the University of Vienna, Austria. She has published extensively on poetry performance and biographical fiction, including the collection Experiments in Life Writing (2017). She is an editor of the European Journal of Life Writing.

• Introduction – Life Writing and Celebrity: Exploring Intersections  1. An Austrian Auden: A Media Construction Story  2. Sergei Eisenstein as Seen by Peter Greenaway: A Dialectic Representation of an (Anti-)Great Film Director  3. Fictionalisation in Biography: Creating the Dickens Myth  4. Visual Art as Celebrity Memoir: The Paradox of Peg Woffington’s Sick-bed Portrait  5. Writing Celebrity as Disability: Las Meninas, Performing Dwarfs, and Michael Jackson Fan Day  6. ‘Boswellized From Mere Persons to Personages’: Arthur Stringer, Mary Pickford, and the Trouble with Celebrity Profile(r)s  7. ‘Watergate-ing’ Norman Mailer’s Marilyn: Life Writing in Cultural Context  8. Pacts, Paratext, and Polyphony: Writing the Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt

Sandra Mayer is a Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Vienna, Austria, and the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, UK. She has published widely on authorship and literary celebrity, (co)editing special issues on the theme for Celebrity Studies, Forum for Modern Language Studies, and Persona Studies. Julia Novak is a Research Fellow at the Department of English at the University of Vienna, Austria. She has published extensively on poetry performance and biographical fiction, including the collection Experiments in Life Writing (2017). She is an editor of the European Journal of Life Writing.

• Introduction – Life Writing and Celebrity: Exploring Intersections  1. An Austrian Auden: A Media Construction Story  2. Sergei Eisenstein as Seen by Peter Greenaway: A Dialectic Representation of an (Anti-)Great Film Director  3. Fictionalisation in Biography: Creating the Dickens Myth  4. Visual Art as Celebrity Memoir: The Paradox of Peg Woffington’s Sick-bed Portrait  5. Writing Celebrity as Disability: Las Meninas, Performing Dwarfs, and Michael Jackson Fan Day  6. ‘Boswellized From Mere Persons to Personages’: Arthur Stringer, Mary Pickford, and the Trouble with Celebrity Profile(r)s  7. ‘Watergate-ing’ Norman Mailer’s Marilyn: Life Writing in Cultural Context  8. Pacts, Paratext, and Polyphony: Writing the Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt