Biography is an essential part of human memory. We think about ourselves in terms of what we have done – our identity is constructed around our past. Are history and biography linked or just two parallel strands? Biographers and historians make choices about how to frame their subject, they draw together fragments to present a possible glimpse of the unattainable whole. An historian might have a thesis or method which drives his/her enquiry whereas a biographer has, perhaps, a particular view of an individual they wish to present. Neither presents the truth, only an interpretation.


Ch. 2 : The authority of the author : Biography and the reconstruction of the canon - Reading Architectural History (2002)

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Biography is an essential part of human memory. We think about ourselves in terms of what we have done – our identity is constructed around our...

Biography is an essential part of human memory. We think about ourselves in terms of what we have done – our identity is constructed around our...

Biography is an essential part of human memory. We think about ourselves in terms of what we have done – our identity is constructed around our...

Biography is an essential part of human memory. We think about ourselves in terms of what we have done – our identity is constructed around our...