The proper writing of lives. Biography and the Art of Virginia Woolf analyses Virginia Woolf\u2019s lifelong interest in the genre of biography and life-writing. Being the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen, the editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, Woolf was personally connected to the genre of literary life. She made biography the substance of her experimental fiction. In addition to this, biography was the topic of several of her critical writings: Woolf reviewed biographies by contemporary and non-contemporary authors and questioned the literary function and significance of the genre in the context of the modern art of writing. In the wake of these considerations, and by taking into account Woolf\u2019s life and her literary achie...