Biography: Literary

This is a domestic biography of the Thackeray family, placing the writer in the context of his home life. The story continues long after his death,...

It has been stated that Charles Dickens began life as a lawyer, got tired of the dull routine, and turned to literature. This is erroneous, for he ...

John Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker Prize in 1972, donating half h...

Natsume Sseki (18671916) was the father of the modern novel in Japan, chronicling the plight of bourgeois characters caught between familiar modes ...

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a fresh look at Lillian Hellmans restless life, her extraordinary plays, and her autobiographical mythsA...

During his long life, Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) was distinguished in many fields: as science and science-fiction writer, inventor, television pr...

Teffi was one of twentieth century Russias most celebrated authors. Born Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya in 1872, she came to be admired by an impressive ran...

This authorized biography by Robert Bonazzi, executor for the estate of John Howard Griffin (19201980), is based upon Griffins Journals from 195019...

Born near Berwick-on-Tweed in the Scottish Borders, and the son of a Church of Scotland minister, Patrick Brydone served as a second lieutenant in ...

Excellence in Publishing Award, Association of Catholic Publishers Honorable Mention, Catholic Press Association Book Award Finalist, Washington St...

After laughing their way through his classic and beloved depictions of nineteenth-century American life, few readers would suspect that Mark Twain'...

This two volume biographical study, published in anticipation of the bicentenary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811, details not o...

WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYSelected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the SPECTATOR, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN and FINANCIAL TIMES ...

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Roger Martin du Gard was one of the most famous writers in the Western world. He won the Nobel Prize for Literat...