Biography: writers

Paul Auster takes the reader on a vivid journey through the brief 29 years of Stephen Crane's life.

Jan Morris is one of the great British writers of the post-war era.

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First published in 1995, David Nokes' major biography of John Gay (1685-1732) was the first full-length life of Gay for over fifty years, and drew on hitherto unpublished letters.

'Hanif Kureishi's literary memoir explores his relationship with his father, a failed writer.

David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school.

'One of the most original and audacious autobiographies ever written by a writer.

'Pictures of perfection make me sick and wicked,' Jane Austen wrote to her niece Fanny Knight a few months before she died.

The letters between Eliot and his associates, family and friends - his correspondents range from the Archbishop of York and the American philosopher Paul Elmer More to the writers Virginia Woolf, Herbert Read and Ralph Hodgson - serve to illuminate the ways in which his Anglo-Catholic convictions could, at times, prove a self-chastising and even alienating force.

It is the evening of 18 July 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Emile Zola is on the run.

Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?

Through a selection of letters to friends and literary peers, Dai Greatcoatpresents a rare insight into the life of the poet and artist David Jones and in so doing offers an autobiographical portrait of the author in his own words.

A great novelist on his twin obsessions: writing and coding.

The key book for all time on Tom Stoppard: the biography of one of our greatest playwrights, by one of the leading literary biographers in the English-speaking world.

'The best biography of Swift to date.

The first comprehensive biography of this undervalued writer, who was considered 'far and away the best living woman poet' in her day.

The Wind in the Willows needs no introduction - children have enjoyed the exploits of its characters for generations.

Marianne Moore (1887-1972) has been heralded as America's greatest poet of the modernist movement.

The Waste Land is the greatest poem of the age.

When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had written five of them.

Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets.

One day, years after he's moved away from his childhood home in rural Ireland, Dermot Healy returns to care for his ailing mother.

'I had arrived at the Greek view of nature.

In the period covered by this richly detailed collection, which brings the poet to the age of forty, T.

'I thought that no man liveth and dieth to himself, so I put behind what I thought and what I did the panorama of the world I lived in - the things that made me.

When DBC Pierre burst onto the scene in 2003, he arrived with no particular literary education.

'You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.

'I thought that no man liveth and dieth to himself, so I put behind what I thought and what I did the panorama of the world I lived in - the things that made me.

'I thought that no man liveth and dieth to himself, so I put behind what I thought and what I did the panorama of the world I lived in - the things that made me.

'The Children of Lovers are Orphans.

'One day there is life .

The Journals of Sylvia Plath offers an intimate portrait of the author of the extraordinary poems for which Plath is so widely loved, but it is also characterized by a prose of vigorous immediacy which places it alongside The Bell Jar as a work of literature.

Letters Home represents Sylvia Plath's correspondence from her time at Smith College in the early 1950s, through her meeting with, and subsequent marriage to, the poet Ted Hughes, up to her death in February 1963.

Keats is the first major biography of this tragic hero of romanticism for some thirty years, and it differs from its predecessors in important respects.

I was three or perhaps four years old when I realized that I had been born into the wrong body, and should really be a girl.

Michael Billington's engrossing biography examines Pinter's work in the context of his life.

A "e;witty, irresistible"e; account of Jane Austen's most zealously devoted fans and their lively literary community (Lan Samantha Chang, author of The Family Chao).

From twenty-seven of today's leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of WaldenFeatures essays by Jennifer Finney Boylan * Kristen Case * George Howe Colt * Gerald Early * Paul Elie * Will Eno * Adam Gopnik * Lauren Groff * Celeste Headlee * Pico Iyer * Alan Lightman * James Marcus * Megan Marshall * Michelle Nijhuis * Zoe Pollak * Jordan Salama * Tatiana Schlossberg * A.

Donald Halls remarkable life in poetry a career capped by his appointment as U.

A candid memoir of love, art, and grief from a celebrated man of letters, United States poet laureate Donald HallIn an intimate record of his twenty-three-year marriage to poet Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall recounts the rich pleasures and the unforeseen trials of their shared life.

Mark Twains final and uncensored masterpiece, presented in three volumes, is alandmark publication in American literature.

Mark Twains final and uncensored masterpiece, presented in three volumes, is alandmark publication in American literature.

This first full-length biography of Anglo- American poet and activist Denise Levertov (1923-1997) brings to life one of the major voices of the second half of the twentieth century, when American poetry was a powerful influence worldwide.

Mark Twains final and uncensored masterpiece, presented in three volumes, is alandmark publication in American literature.

Los textos reunidos en Vivir de viaje presentan un rasgo peculiar y definitorio de Sara Gallardo: el desplazamiento como modo de vida, ya sea a causa de los viajes realizados por elección o necesidad personal, ya sea por los que emprende como enviada de los diarios o las revistas en los que trabaja.

How four American cities shaped Poe's life and writingsEdgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) changed residences about once a year throughout his life.

"e;We came to Britain in search of better opportunities or to get some of the wealth which had been misappropriated from the Caribbean, but what in reality did we find?

The noted author recounts the struggles and triumphs of his search for spiritual meaning in this "e;exquisite memoir that often reads like a novel"e; (Publisher's Weekly).