Keepers of the Flame: Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography. by Hamilton, Ian - 1992.

London: Hutchinson , 1992. True First Edition -- UK Cloth AS NEW in AS NEW DJ 8vo (6-1/4 x 9-1/2), 344 pp including Notes and Index. Book is AS NEW in AS NEW glossy pictorial DJ. Mr. Hamilton describes the emergence of literary biographies through the medium of literary estate management and mismanagement. The effect estate management and copyright law have had on the relative truths and untruths of biographies. Mr Hamilton gives the great historical biographies and biographers no more respect than they are due -- often none at all, always with wit and insight.