Biography: Literary

Arturo Barea (1897-1957) is often seen as merely a spontaneous writer with a passion against injustice. In fact, he set out deliberately to write c...

In the 1890s Oscar Wilde enjoyed one of the most high-profile reputations in Britain; yet, virtually overnight, he was plunged into disgrace and ru...

Riveting, tragic tale New Yorker Anna Pasternak has produced an irresistible account of joy, suffering and passion Financial Times ...

A searing indictment of racial injustice in America - inspired by the life and work of James Baldwin - to help us understand the present moment, an...

'Superlative... definitive and genuinely gripping' SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly engrossing' EVENING STANDARD'Compulsively readable... Beautifully written.....

David Pryce-Jones weaves a vivid life story through vignettes of the many famous authorsfriends, acquaintances, interview subjectswho gave him pers...

Michel Winocks biography situates Gustave Flauberts life and work in Frances century of great democratic transition. Flaubert did not welcome the e...

Seeking to enrich your life with great poetry, looking for the perfect line to enhance an important speech or personal note, or simply to express y...

Although his hilariously entertaining stories have touched the hearts of generations of children, there was much more to beloved author Roald Dahl ...

Who was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula Byrnes landmark biog...

Jane Austen is a mystery. The first incontrovertibly great woman novelist, she is, among other things, one of the finest prose stylists in literatu...

Emer OSullivan has made an indispensable contribution to Wildean literature Compelling, informative and fascinating - Stephen Fry The Fall of th...

In this new offering from Stanley Wells, the pre-eminent Shakespearian scholar, comes a Very Short Introduction to the life and writings of the wor...

Charles Dickens is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworkin...

Travel back in time and share the experience of everyday thoughts and great moments in history in this fascinating compilation of diaries through t...

In June of 1961, A.E. Hotchner visited an old friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary's Hospital. It would be the last time they spoke--a few we...