Fabricating Lives (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Herbert Leibowitz
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Time of Work: From the eighteenth to the twentieth century
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: Benjamin Franklin, Jane Addams, Emma Goldman, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Richard Wright, Edward Dahlberg
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Social action, United States or Americans, Revolutionaries, Literature, Social work, Poetry or poets, American Revolution, World War I, Architecture or architects
- Locales: United States
The advantages and dangers of autobiography are perhaps too obvious to require mentioning at length. Certainly, in one sense, no one is more qualified to discuss an individual’s life than the person himself or herself. At the same time, no one is more likely to have good reason to paint that life in terms most flattering to the subject. While it is often hard to distort facts available in the public record, autobiographers frequently find themselves able to take great liberty in detailing the private side of their lives or in explaining motives for acts that many may have witnessed....
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