The Biographer's Tale
 First edition | |
| Author | A. S. Byatt |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Chatto & Windus |
Publication date | 1 November 2001 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 376 pp |
| ISBN | 0-7540-1641-2 |
| OCLC | 47868714 |
The Biographer's Tale is a book by A. S. Byatt. The story is about a postgraduate student, Phineas G. Nanson, who decides to write a biography about an obscure biographer, Scholes Destry-Scholes. During the course of his research he fails to learn much about the actual subject of his biography, but discovers a lot of Destry-Scholes' unpublished research about real historical figures Carl Linnaeus, Francis Galton and Henrik Ibsen. In the book, Byatt combines facts with fiction when recounting the lives of the three latter figures.
External links[]
- The Biographer's Tale - at The Complete Review
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- 2001 British novels
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