Biography: Literary

Ruskin is one of the most influential and exhilarating writers in English. Art critic, architectural visionary, social reformer, climate warner and...

Sol Plaatje is celebrated as one of South Africa's most accomplished political and literary figures. A pioneer in the history of the black press, e...

This book is an intimate, fond and funny memoir of one of the greatest novelists of the last century. This colourful, personal, anecdotal, indiscre...

This is a memoir as wry, funny, moving and vivid as its inimitable subject himself. This book will be a joy for both lifelong fans and for a whole ...

John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion explores the life of one of the most significant figures of the English Renaissance. The book not only provid...

Aldous Huxley was one of the twentieth century's most prescient thinkers. This new biography charts the phases of Huxley's life and writing: from t...

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

The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, late...

Winner, 2011 Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 2009 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice. Against the...

The definitive biography of Vera Brittain, acclaimed author of Testament of Youth. With a new introduction by Mark Bostridge.'Riveting and authorit...