Basically, this study of psychobiography by Alan C. Elms, Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis, is a collection of brief biographical essays, some of them dating back to the early 1970s and most previously published. They are framed by a few chapters on issues in psychobiography and techniques for practicing it. This amiable and somewhat casual book seems to be addressed not to biographers or theorists of biography, but to that small segment of the author's colleagues who are not yet initiated into the mysteries of this widely read and practiced genre. The