Biography: Literary

The identity of Shakespeare, the most important poet and dramatist in the English language, has been debated for centuries. This historical work...

The most comprehensive account of Georges Simenon's life and work in either English or French--from his youth and adolescence in Belgium, through h...

The first biography of the vagabond, hard-boiled writer who rocked Hollywood during the Roaring Twenties The son of an Irish ditch-digger, Jim ...

Since his rise to fame in 1967 when his work The Peregrine was awarded the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, J A Baker has captured the popular imaginati...

Writers and alcohol have long been associated--for some, the association becomes unmanageable. Drawing on rare sources, this collection of brief...

Focusing on the first 20 years of Katherine Mansfield's life, from her birth in 1888 to her final departure from New Zealand in 1908, this biograph...

In his own lifetime and for nearly a hundred years James Hogg was was seen as the natural, if lesser, inheritor of the mantle of Robert Burns. Hogg...

Shakespeare and his Contemporaries by Charles Nicholl William Shakespeare and his contemporaries helped create not only a new kind of theatre but a...

The Artist and the Trinity' aims to create a Christian theology of work based on Dorothy L. Sayers' analogy of the Trinity to the process of artist...

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680), has long been notorious as one of the most entertaining, extravagant and scandalous members of Charles ...

This book, the first of two volumes anticipating the bicentenary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811, details not only the author's...

Byron and Hobby-O is about the relationship between Byron and his supposed best friend, John Cam Hobhouse. It is the first full-length biographical...

Carlos Fuentes (19282012) was the most prominent novelist in contemporary Mexico and, until his recent death, one of the leading voices in Latin Am...