Confessions of an Autobiography Scholar; or, You Can't Handle the Truthiness

Timothy Dow Adams

doi:10.1353/bio.0.0090

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Confessions of an Autobiography Scholar; or, You Can’t Handle the Truthiness
Timothy Dow Adams
Biography
University of Hawai'i Press
Volume 32, Number 2, Spring 2009
pp. 340-343
10.1353/bio.0.0090
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Abstract

This piece is an autobiographical summary of my relationship to truth and genre over a long career as a scholar of life writing. In what is meant to be humorous, I lament the entanglements of my scholarly and personal life and my ever shifting views on teaching and writing in contrast to living a life in autobiography.

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ISSN	1529-1456
Print ISSN	0162-4962
Pages	pp. 340-343
Launched on MUSE	2009-09-06
Open Access	No

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