Biography: Literary

An exuberant, breathless sprint through London in the fifties, sixties and seventies Its bright, boisterous and extremely funny Tatler 'Clancys sc...

In early 1900, the paths of three British writersRudyard Kipling, Mary Kingsley and Arthur Conan Doylecrossed in South Africa, during whats become ...

Kenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the post-war Establishment. The wry and amusing journals of the royal biographer and historian...

Over the course of three days in 1970, June 5, 6, and 7, simply sitting on a white bench in a Hamburg park, Thomas Bernhard delivered a powerful mo...

Beloved by children and adults worldwide, the writings of C.S. Lewis have a broad and enduring appeal. Although he is best known for the iconic Chr...

'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.' So begins this stunning portrait of ...

Tomás Ó Criomhthain (18561937) is one of the giants of Irish-language literature. His best-known books, Allagar na hInise and An tOileánach, are ac...

L''enjeu de cet essai est d''entrer dans la poetique de Baudelaire par la voie du langage, specifiquement par l''analyse d''une figure rhetorique d...

For readers and writers alike, Origins of a Story is the inspiring collection of 202 amazing true stories behind the inspiration for the world's gr...

If you didn't know whether to risk doing something, what's the worst that could happen? 'So they call you pisher!'In this humorous and moving memoi...

C. S. Lewis offers a magisterial take on the literature and poetry of one of the most consequential periods in world history, providing deep insigh...

Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls - the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on...

Death of a Rebel tells the story of Charles Andrews Fenton (1919-1960), a charismatic teacher, scholar, and writer who took his own life by jumping...

The Tinker and the Student is the second volume of David Campbells biography of acclaimed Scottish storyteller Duncan Williamson. This volume chron...