D eveloping side by side in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, biography and the novel made private lives public. Abiding interest in the unsolved mystery of personality has kept both these long-winded genres popular–and especially so since the culture of celebrity began to blur the distinctions between them. Today, the life stories of prominent people, […]
Rachel Brownstein
Rachel M. Brownstein is an English professor at the City University of New York's Graduate Center Ph.D. English Program.
