Ethics in biography writing

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The Ethics of Biography and Autobiography

Abstract

I shall be arguing that biographers and autobiographers incur different kinds of moral risk, just as they pursue different moral opportunities. To set some contexts, I shall risk an autobiographical account of my work in ethics and literature, begun in the late 1960s.

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  1. Laurence S.

    Lockridge, The Ethics of Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 1989) 22–38.

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  2. John Leggett, Ross and Tom: Two American Tragedies (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974). ‘Tom’ refers to Thomas Heggen, author of Mister Roberts. He and Lockridge never met.

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