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Revising Lives: Bernard Shaw and His Biographer
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 17, Number 4, Fall 1994
- pp. 339-366
- 10.1353/bio.2010.0278
- Article
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Shaw's galley revisions of Archibald Henderson's 1932 biography, Bernard Shaw: Playboy and Prophet, reveal a unique collaboration between biographer and subject. The result is a subversion of biographical conventions, in which the assumed voice of the biographer lends credence and authority to the disguised voice of the subject.