Biography: writers

John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century; his collected poems sold more than two million copies.

A daring investigation of Primo Levi's brief career as a fighter with the Italian Resistance, and the grim secret that haunted his lifeNo other Auschwitz survivor has been as literarily powerful and historically influential as Primo Levi.

Now the subject of major Disney film starring Ewan McGregor, this is Christopher Robin in his own words.

This tender and personal memoir by the poet Joanna Ramsey of George Mackay Brown gives an account of some aspects of the last eight years of his life in Stromness, Orkney, and of the friendship between them.

After a long absence from his native southern Appalachians, Thomas Rain Crowe returned to live alone deep in the North Carolina woods.

The authorized and sweeping biography of one of America's most complex, influential, and enduring poetsIn the extraordinary generation of American poets who came of age in the middle of the twentieth century, James Wright (1927-1980) was frequently placed at the top of the list.

Named one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Books of 2016.

“Crawford captures the energy, humor, and wide-eyed hope of America’s first ‘angel investor’ with wit and verve .

Cutty, One Rock takes the reader on a wild journey by airplane, bus, ferry, and foot from childhood to early manhood in the company of a New Jersey family in equal measures cultivated and deranged.

Here is a unique collection of fifty years of essays chosen to form an unconventional autobiography and capstone to his remarkable career as the conservative writer par excellence.

This book is available as an Open Access ebook under a CC-BY_NC-ND licence.

Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth were born just four years apart, in the 1770s, in a world torn between heady revolutionary ideas and fierce conservatism, and both were influenced by the Romantic ideals of Dorothy's brother, William Wordsworth, and his friends.

'It is always a bore being ahead of one's time.

"e;I intend to do everything.

From the author of To the Finland Station comes a deeply personal and incisive memoir, A Piece of My Mind.

A "e;heartbreaking, heartrending, heart-stopping"e; memoir of a literature professor's personal journey to hell and back (Vanity Fair).

Este libro es un viaje a la aventura, de todo tipo de fantasia.

A forensic psychiatrist's second opinion on the conditions that led to Ernest Hemingway's suicide, "e;mixing biography, literature and medical analysis"e; (The Washington Post).

A collection of essays from the author of Same-Sexy Marriage.

WINNER OF THE WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN/ACKERLY PRIZE.

A monumental reevaluation of the career of John Hersey, the author of HiroshimaFew are the books with as immediate an impact and as enduring a legacy as John Hersey's Hiroshima.

Hugo and Locus Award FinalistAn Economist Best Book of the YearAMilwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2018An amazing and engrossing history.

Eudora Welty's works are treasures of American literature.

'It's hard to think of a memoir that describes the experience [of love] with as much honesty, passion and precision.

Two books in one in a flip dos-a-dos format: The story of Aleksandar Hemon's parents' immigration from Sarajevo to Canada and a book of short memories of the author's family, friends, and childhood in SarajevoIn My Parents, Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his parents' immigration to Canada-of the lives that were upended by the war in Bosnia and siege of Sarajevo and the new lives his parents were forced to build.

'A masterpiece which delights from first page to last.

Unspoken Words is based on struggles that I faced in life that was kept hidden within myself.

Henry Dumas (1934-1968) was a writer who did not live to see most of his fiction and poetry in print.