Biography and Autobiography
If there are things in your own experience, or that of your family, or there is someone you have known and always wanted to investigate, then this course will provide you with the tools to shape a literary work that makes your story enjoyable and accessible. You will learn to recognise what things are significant, how to characterise them in ways that bring them to life, and how to structure them to keep a reader’s interest. Whether yours is a story of travel, personal exploits or the witness of unsung heroes and events, this course will help you to turn it into words that last.
ABOUT Tutor: Dr John Ballam
John Ballam, BA, PhD, is Director of the Undergraduate Diploma in Creative Writing for Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. He is the author of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, reviews, articles and scripts for stage and screen. His best known title is his memoir The Road to Harmony (Pan Macmillan; new edition, 2009). He is a contributing author to a series of enterprise biographies commissioned by the prestigious Italian consortium Fondazione IStud, and he is a script consultant to major film producers in Hollywood, London, and Mumbai.
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