Preface / William S. McFeely -- Introduction / Mary Rhiel and David Suchoff -- 1. Bisexuality and Celebrity / Marjorie Garber -- 2. Personal Stories and National Meanings: Memory, Reenactment, and the Image / Marita Sturken -- 3. Inventing and Interpreting Malcolm X / Michael Eric Dyson -- 4. Reading the Silences in a Gay Life: The Case of Bayard Rustin / John D'Emilio -- 5. Outing History / Blanche Wiesen Cook -- 6. Michael Harrington: An "Other" American / Maurice Isserman -- 7. Two Paintings by William H. Johnson / Richard J. Powell -- 8. Reconstructing Enterprise: Madam Walker, Black Womanhood, and the Transformation of the American Culture of Success / Jeffrey Louis Decker -- 9. Frida Kahlo: Life into Art / Hayden Herrera -- 10. Telling Secrets / Diane Wood Middlebrook -- 11. Confessions of a Burned-Out Biographer / Phyllis Rose -- 12. Incidents in the Life of Harriet Jacobs / Jean Fagan Yellin.

13. Taking a Life: Hot Pursuit and Cold Rewards in a Mexican Testimonial Novel / Doris Sommer -- 14. Telling the Teller: Memoir and Story / Sherley Anne Williams -- 15. "Catastrophic Encounters": Postmodern Biography as Witness to History / Marilyn L. Brownstein -- 16. Your Nearest Exit May Be Behind You: Autobiography and the Post-Modernist Moment / Clark Blaise.