The Life Story Interview

by Robert Atkinson

First-person narratives are a fundamental tool of the qualitative researcher. This volume provides specific suggestions and guidelines for preparing and executing a life story interview. Robert Atkinson places the life story interview into a wider research context before elaborating on planning and then conducting the interview. Finally, the book deals with the issues of transcribing and interpreting the interview. The author provides a sample life story interview in the appendix.

104 pages, Paperback

First published January 6, 1998

Reviews

[Rianne]

For a book on Life Story Interviews, the What got answered. However the How has barely been touched. It was dissappointing.