Authorial biographies—biographies written by authors—as exemplified by Johnson's Life of Savage and Nabokov's Nikolai Gogol , constitute a distinctive subgenre of biography, remarkable for, among other features, a relative unconcern with facts, ideological independence, antipanegyrical orientation, and a tendency toward self-assertion and self-investment. This article compares the strategies by which Johnson and Nabokov constitute themselves as authors while operating within the biographical form.
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