Biography: Literary

Barbara Bray (1924-2010) was an English woman of letters who translated some hundred novels, plays and essays from French to English and was Margue...

This study punctures the stereotyped portrayals of Marlowe, first created by his rival Robert Greene, and, yet, which still colour our view. In doi...

The image of the dusty, undisturbed archive has been swept away in response to growing interest across disciplines in the materials they house and ...

Occurring in a time of primitive medicine and inconsistent record-keeping, Poes death has become one of the enduring mysteries of American literatu...

Charles Lamb (1775-1834) was a poet, critic and, above all, an essayist of great distinction. As the 250th anniversary of his birth approaches, Cha...

An expansive and illuminating study of legendary writer Dorothy Parkers life and legacy in Hollywood from the author of the fascinating (Town &...

The Blue Light is an autobiographical novel in chapters and vignettes that travels through memory, time, and language. Hussein Bargouthi tells his ...

Timothy Findley (1930-2002) was one of Canada's foremost writers - an award-winning novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who began his care...

A thrillingly provocative investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays b...

America is obsessed with Los Angeles. And America has been thinking about Los Angeles all wrong, for decades, on repeat. Los Angeles is not just th...

'Wild, brilliant and has all the intelligence to rival its subject. Five Stars.' - Frances Wilson, The Telegraph'Exuberant and wide-ranging' - Lite...

This anthology recalls Christmas in Shakespeare's day, when it was an expansive festival, dominated by strict religious observance on the day itsel...

Evelyn Underhill (18751941) was one of the greatest spiritual writers of the twentieth century. Living most of her life in England, Underhill used ...

Over her four decades of working in newsrooms big and small, Margaret Sullivan has become a trusted champion and critic of the American news media....

Kitasono Katue was a leading avant-garde literary figure, first in Japan and then throughout the world, from the 1920s to the 1970s. In his long ca...

In 2006, Charles Shields reached out to Kurt Vonnegut in a letter asking for his endorsement for a planned biography. The first response was no (A ...

Patricia Highsmith, one of the greatest writers of 20th Century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favourite hero-cri...

An innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe--highlighting his fascination and feuds with science. Decade after decade, Edgar Allan Poe remains one...

In 1962, childrens writer Roger Lancelyn Green coined the phrase The Golden Age of Childrens Books. A. A. Milnes two Winnie-the-Pooh books, publish...

With these words, the sixteen-year-old senior at Montgomery Blair High School set himself apart from the high school crowd and set himself on a tra...

The first Texas-based writer to gain national attention, J. Frank Dobie proved that authentic writing springs easily from the native soil of Texas ...

In 1982, after years of working in advertising in Oklahoma, Jann Stapp took a job as the personal assistant to the world's bestselling author, Haro...

Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) was one of Americas greatest poets, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and widely recognised as a master of formal verse that ...

The third installment of Harvards five-volume edition of Robert Frosts correspondence.The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 3: 19291936 is the latest...