Biography: Literary

Descendants of a prominent slaveholding family, Elizabeth, Grace, and Katharine Lumpkin grew up in a culture of white supremacy. But while Elizabet...

Emily Jane Brontë was born in July 1818; along with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, she is famed as a member of the greatest literary family of all...

In this startlingly original memoir, composed of twenty-three letters written over the course of thirty years, Emma Reyes describes in vivid, paint...

A ground-breaking and intensely revealing examination of the life of the 20th century's most iconic writer.Ernest Hemingway was an involuntary cham...

WINNER OF THE 2021 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE A strange and mesmerising piece of work Sunday Times An absolute masterpiece Laura Cumming An uncommon deli...

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...