Biography matters : why historians need well-crafted biographies more than ever / Shirley A. Leckie -- Culture and context in biographical studies : the case of China / R. Keith Schoppa -- Reshaping Tudor biography : Anne Boleyn and Anne of Cleves / Retha M. Warnicke -- Conception, conversation, and comparison : my experiences as a biographer / John Milton Cooper Jr. -- Ut pictura poesis, or, The sisterhood of the verbal and visual arts / Nell Irvin Painter -- Did Friedrich Schelling kill Auguste Bvhmer [sic] and does it matter? : the necessity of biography in the history of philosophy / Robert J. Richards