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John Buchan and Twentieth-Century Biography
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 2, Number 4, Fall 1979
- pp. 328-341
- 10.1353/bio.2010.0212
- Article
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Criticism of twentieth-century English and American biography often focuses on "The New Biography" movement while neglecting writers like John Buchan, 1875-1940. Buchan's biographical achievements and the critical acclaim accorded him in both England and America attest to the advance during this period of the tradition of life-writing established by Johnson and Boswell.