Fabricating Lives: Explorations in American Autobiography

Herbert Leibowitz. New Directions Publishing Corporation, $14.95 (386pp) ISBN 978-0-8112-1168-0

The strategies, stylistic tendencies and inconsistencies of eight autobiographers including Benjamin Franklin, Emma Goldman and Edward Dahlberg are examined. PW called this a ``devastating, witty, incisive portrait gallery. . . . Leibowitz's complex profiles turn up hidden facets of character and relate them to cross-currents of history and culture.'' Photos. (June)

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