Autobiography: Literary

In One Hundred Autobiographies, poet and scholar David Lehman applies the full measure of his intellectual powers to cope with a frightening diagno...

'One of the most eloquent thinkers about our life in language' The Sunday TimesTime Lived, Without Its Flow is a beautiful, unflinching essay on th...

Few men know death: we do not usually undergo it deliberately, but unthinkingly and out of habit and most men die because men cannot help dying -Fr...

1 January 2018 will be the 250th anniversary of Maria Edgeworths birth. Valerie Pakenhams sparkling new selection of over four hundred letters, man...

'You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person world to whom none of these things will ever hap...

Robert Graves, aged nineteen, left school within a week of the outbreak of World War I, and immediately volunteered with the Royal Welch Fusiliers....

The National Book Awardwinning author of Year of the Monkey, Just Kids, and M Train offers a rare, intimate account of her own creative process  De...

Dylan Thomas''s classic account of his childhood Christmases, newly issued with full colour illustrations by Peter Bailey in this beautiful, cloth-...

Find biographical information on more than 130,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Sketche...

'Among the wealthy elders, my views gave some offence. Two or three people walked out of my lecture in Hamburg. At a dinner in Oldenburg I was seat...

Released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Cocteau''s death, this edition features original illustrations by the author. A gripping account ...

We had been instructed to start promptly at six, since the hall was needed again at eight. We pushed through the curtained doorway, like instrument...

Recipient of the Approved Edition seal from the Modern Language Associations Committee on Scholarly Editions This critical and scholarly edition pr...

In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the Saturday Evening Post. Lines on a Half-Painted House made it into the magazine - but not before Kumin...

In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the Saturday Evening Post. Lines on a Half-Painted House made it into the magazine - but not before Kumin...

Containing letters written between October 3, 1878, and August 30, 1879, this volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James reveals Henry James est...

'Unremittingly glorious. I and the world demand more and we shall thump our tin mugs on the table demanding it until we are satisfied.'Stephen FryL...

There are virtually no biographies of naval enlisted personnel, making Dennis L. Noble's book wholly unique. Richard McKenna was an enlisted sailor...

Emily Chubbuck Judson (18171854) was a nationally known writer of the mid-nineteenth century. With pieces appearing alongside those by Edgar Allan ...

Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2020.''The best book on teachers and children and writing that I''ve ever read. No-one has said be...