Title
'The Aspern Papers' and Modern Biography
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Discussion of the biographer's quests to discover the truth of people's lives and place them in the context of their culture, drawing on the unscrupulous fictional biographer in James's 1888 novella, "The Aspern Papers." Meyers recounts his own biographical pursuits of valuable papers and interviews with his subjects' friends and family, including Gregory Hemingway and Toby Bruce.
Published in
Henry James Review
Volume
42
Issue
1
Date
2021
Pages
51-59
COinS
Citation
Meyers, Jeffrey. "'The Aspern Papers' and Modern Biography." Henry James Review 42, no. 1 (2021): 51-59.