Biographical Research Theory Bookshelf
Alpern, S., J. Antler, E. I. Perry, & Scobie, I. W. (Eds.) (1992). The Challenge of Feminist Biography. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press.
Ascher, C., DeSalvo, L., & Ruddick, S. (Eds.) (1984). Between Women. Boston: Beacon Press.
Backscheider, P. R. (2001). Reflections on Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Batchelor, J. (Ed.) (1995). The Art of Literary Biography. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Bateson, M. C. (1989) Composing a Life. New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press.
Bowen, C. D. (1959). Adventures of a Biographer. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co.
Bowen, C. D. (1968). Biography. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co.
Clifford, J. L. (1970). From Puzzles to Portraits: Problems of a Literary Biographer. Chapel Hill: UNC Press.
Denzin, N. (1989). Interpretive Biography. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Edel, L. (1959). Writing Lives: Principia Biographica. New York: W. W. Norton.
Epstein, W. (Ed.) (1991). Contesting the Subject. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press.
Garraty, J. (1957). The Nature of Biography. New York: Knopf.
Goodson, I. F. & Walker, R. (1991). Biography, Identity and Schooling. London: Falmer Press.
Hamilton, N. (2008). How to Do Biography: A Primer. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Heilbrun, C. G. (1988). Writing a Woman’s Life. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.
Holmes, R. (2000). Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer. New York: Pantheon
Holroyd, M. (2002). Works on Paper: The Craft of Biographer and Autobiography. Washington, DC: Counterpoint.
Iles, T. (Ed.) (1992). All Sides of the Subject: Women and Biography. New York: Teachers College Press.
Josselson, R. & Lieblich, A. (Eds.) (1993). The Narrative Study of Lives. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Kendall, P. M. (1965/1986). The Art of Biography. New York: W.W. Norton.
Kridel, C. (Ed.) (1998). Writing Educational Biography. New York: Garland.
Langness, L. & Frank, G. (1981). Lives: An Anthropological Approach to Biography. Novato, CA: Chandler & Sharp Publishers, Inc.
Lomask, M. (1986). The Biographer’s Craft. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers.
Mariani, P. (1984). A Usable Past. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
Oates, S. B. (Ed.) (1986). Biography as High Adventure. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
Oates, S. B. (1991). Biography as History. Waco, Texas: Mankham Press Fund.
Pachter, M. (Ed.) (1981). Telling Lives: The Biographer’s Art. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press.
Roberts, B. (2002). Biographical Research. London: Open University Press. Rollyson, C. (1992). Biography: An Annotated Bibliography. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press.
Rollyson, C. (2005). A Higher Form of Cannibalism? Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. Rollyson, C. (2008). Biography: A User’s Guide. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. Secrest, M. (2007). Shoot the Widow: Adventures of a Biographer in Search of her Subject. New York: Knopf. Veninga, J. F. (1983). The Biographer’s Gift. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.
Wagner-Martin, L. (1994). Telling Women’s Lives: The New Biography. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Documentary Research Theory Bookshelf Austin, T. & de Jong, W. (2008). Rethinking Documentary: New Perspectives, New Practices. London: Open University Press.
Hill, M. R. (1993). Archival Strategies and Techniques. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
Jackson, H. J. (2001). Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books. New Haven: Yale Univ Press.
LeClercq, A. W. (1993). Unpublished Materials: Libraries and Fair Use. Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries.
McCulloch, G. (2004). Documentary Research in Education, History and the Social Sciences. London: Routledge.
Nichols, B. (2001). Introduction to Documentary. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Scott, J. P. (Ed.). (2006). Documentary Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.