Documentary Editing, Association for
Date of this Version
Winter 2004
Document Type
Article
Citation
Documentary Editing, Volume 26, Number 4, Winter 2004. ISSN 0196-7134
Abstract
Documentary editors are attracted to and often bemused and irritated by biography (and biographers). They have a unique perspective on this genre that I'm going to explore through the prism of my own experience as a biographer and a documentary editor. I've been an editor for nearly twenty years and in that time have written or collaborated on four biographical projects-a biography of Revolutionary War general Benjamin Lincoln, a selected letters edition of Dolley Payne Madison, and two children's biographies of Dolley and James Madison.
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