Biography: Literary

Clive James, a true polymath, became a generation-defining voice as a broadcaster, a critic, a poet and an author. Among his greatest achievements,...

For centuries, human history has been shaped by politics, power, and war - but what about love?Mark Antony's love for Cleopatra led to war between ...

The first book-length study of Wang Wenxing in English offering biographic, cultural, textual, literary, and linguistic readings of his work. The e...

Pronounced guilty of libel and sentenced to a year in prison, novelist Émile Zola went on the run. Zola's crime had been to defend a wrongly convic...

A complete account of the life and times of James Joyce in the form of a graphic novel. From his earliest days and school career, through to meetin...

Part coming-of-age story, part psychological thriller, part philosophical investigation, this unforgettable memoir traces the ramifications of a se...

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 18861961) was one of the first writers of free verse in English, best known for her sparse Imagist poems. For over forty yea...

In the year 1900, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was at the height of his success as a qualified doctor, keen sportsman, writer of historical novels, champ...

Bram Stoker: Author of Dracula is an affectionate and revealing biography of the man who created the vampire novel that would define the genre and ...

One of the Years Best, Times Literary Supplement When a writer tracks down his literary hero, Graham Greene, who is living quietly on the shores of...

In Three Tides, a writer's writer lets readers peek over her shoulder as she talks about writing, revealing the process that allows her to stumble,...

First published to celebrate Faber's 90th anniversary, this is the story of one of the world's greatest publishing houses - a delight for all reade...

A vivid portrait of the man behind the writings, placing Orwell and his work at the centre of the current political landscape. One of the most end...

A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward Abbey (19271989) wr...

The woman who emerges from these pages is as riveting as her books (The Wall Street Journal) in this compelling celebration of the famously private...

Woman Much Missed is the first book-length study of the many poems (over 150) that Thomas Hardy composed in the wake of the death of his first wife...

Terra Incognita: D. H. Lawrence at the Frontiers consists of nine essays by scholars from five countries. They show how Lawrence explored the terra...

One hundred fifty years ago, Thomas Carlyle was the intellectual gadfly whom many disagreed with but everyone read. Statesmen, philosophers, noveli...