Biography: writers

The poet and author’s “beautiful .

"e;This is a celebratory meld of memoir, biography and travelogue, intensely personal and all the better for it.

One of the Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century: The great American writer tells his own story.

Longlisted for the Historians of British Art (HBA) Book Prize 2022'Amusing, charming, stimulating, urbane' - THE TIMES'Revelatory' - GUARDIAN'Restores Clive Bell vividly to life' - Lucasta Miller______________Clive Bell is perhaps better known today for being a Bloomsbury socialite and the husband of artist Vanessa Bell, sister to Virginia Woolf.

Understanding Marcel Proust includes an overview of Marcel Proust's development as a writer, addressing both works published and unpublished in his lifetime, and then offers an in-depth interpretation of Proust's major novel, In Search of Lost Time, relating it to the Western literary tradition while also demonstrating its radical newness as a narrative.

Michael Maar verfolgt eine bis dahin unbeachtete Spur in Thomas Manns Leben und Werk − und zeigt beides in völlig neuem Licht.

In her highly anticipated memoir, Margaret A.

Joseph Rolnik is widely considered one of the most prominent of the New York Yiddish poets associated with Di Yunge, an avant-garde literary group that formed in the early twentieth century.

Escape into Danger tells the remarkable story of a young girl's perilous adventures and coming of age during World War II.

Inspired by a vivid dream, Stephenie Meyer, a stay-at-home mom, wrote a manuscript that started a worldwide sensation that has yet to abate.

'In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could do to any person; I create myself'Intimate, vulnerable and unsparing, Reborn bears witness to the evolution of Susan Sontag.

This fascinating text contains the memoirs of Ford Madox Ford, originally published in 1911, and dedicated to his young children.

In 1990 Herve Guibert gained wide recognition and notoriety with the publication of "e;A l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauve la vie (To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life)"e;.

Samuel Koteliansky (1880-1955) fled the pogroms of Russia in 1911 and established himself as a friend of many of Britain's literati and intellectuals, who were fascinated by his homeland's more civilized side: the Ballets Russes, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov.

A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother.

Mark Twain's wit and wisdom is timeless.

Mark Twain, who was often photographed with a cigar, once remarked that he came into the world looking for a light.

An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the writing life a more complex and cooperative venture "e;Illuminating, deeply endearing essays.

_________________________The perfect accompaniment to the definitive new editions of Georgette Heyer's celebrated novels that are currently being reissued.

The organization of Shakespeare's plays has challenged, even baffled audiences and critics since the 17th century.

As the Second World War neared its conclusion, Germany was a nation reduced to rubble: 3.

Das Meer war für Thomas Mann sein Leben lang der Ort der Sehnsucht und des verheißungsvollen Sogs in die Tiefe.

Louisiana writer Tim Gautreaux (b.

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

A collection of autobiographical nonfiction, including the memoir The Invention of Solitude, by the Booker Prize finalist and “literary original” (The Wall Street Journal).

No modern philosopher has been more maligned and misunderstood or more cynically exploited than Friedrich Nietzsche.

In this authorised biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but a dominant figure in post-war British writing, as novelist, poet, critic and polemicist.

One of the most famous writers of all time, George Orwell's life played a huge part in his understanding of the world.

This book, Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munshi, is the most comprehensive, multi-disciplinary studies on Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir, widely known as Munshi Abdullah (1796-1854).

The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylumIvor Gurney (1890-1937) wrote some of the most anthologized poems of the First World War and composed some of the greatest works in the English song repertoire, such as "e;Sleep.

With roots in the American South, Beth Henley (b.

Award-winning songwriter Linda Thompson breaks her silence, sharing the extraordinary story of her life, career, and epic romances with two of the most celebrated, yet enigmatic, modern American superstarsElvis Presley and Bruce JennerFor the last forty years, award-winning songwriter Linda Thompson has quietly led one of the most remarkable lives in show business.

A completely fresh insight into the mind of one of the UK's greatest playwrights, the letters between John Osborne and his first wife, actress Pamela Lane, are also a love letter to a now defunct system of repertory theatre, and life in post-war Britain.

Inge Jens zieht BilanzInge Jens wurde als Editorin von Thomas Manns Tagebüchern gerühmt, als Biographin von Katia Mann und Hedwig Pringsheim gefeiert.

The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) moved between the genres and geographies of enlightenment writing with considerable dexterity.

Sir Trevor McDonald is an extraordinary man - and he has led an improbable life.

A novel is a long narrative in literary prose.

The first full-scale biography of prolific writer Alice Adams, whose celebrated stories and bestselling novels traced women's lives and illuminated ';an era characterized both by drastic cultural changes and by the persistence of old expectations, conventions, and biases' (The New Yorker).

One of the Lost Generation modernists who gathered in 1920s Paris, Kay Boyle published more than forty books, including fifteen novels, eleven collections of short fiction, eight volumes of poetry, three children's books, and various essays and translations.

The life of Raymond Chandler has long been obscured by secrets and half-truths as deceptive as anything in his novel The Long Goodbye.

An in-depth treatment in two volumes of the historical and cultural contexts of rape and rape culture, this set discusses both victims and perpetrators internationally during war and peace times and examines the treatment of survivors.

Baldwin's Harlem is an intimate portrait of the life and genius of one of our most brilliant literary minds: James Baldwin.

Johnson himself wrote in 1782: 'I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets'.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers.

On the ongoing project of writing about grief; Zambreno''s addendum to Book of Mutter.

A vivid portrait of the man behind the writings, placing Orwell and his work at the centre of the current political landscape.

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020*'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening StandardThe Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi.