Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited

By Philip Eade

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

By Laurie Lee

Robin Williams - When the Laughter Stops 1951-2014

By Emily Herbert

The Cherry Orchard

By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

You Might as Well Live: Life and Times of Dorothy Parker

By John Keats

Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me

By Clanchy, Kate

Christina Rossetti: A Literary Biography

By Jan Marsh

Auden

By Richard Davenport-Hines

The Life and Times of William Shakespeare

By Peter Levi

The Notebooks Of Joseph Joubert

By Joseph Joubert

Orwell: A Man Of Our Time

By Richard Bradford (University of Ulster, UK)

The Quality of Love: Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century

By Ariane Bankes

To the End of the World: Travels with Oscar Wilde

By Rupert Everett

The World of Little House

By carolyn-strom-collins-christina-wyss-eriksson

On Acting

By Laurence Olivier

Lives of the English Poets: v. 2

By Samuel Johnson

Lives of the English Poets: v. 1

By Samuel Johnson

Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters

By Daniel Stashower, Jon L. Lellenberg, Charles Foley

Chaucer: A Beginner's Guide

By Dr. Catherine Richardson

Charles Dickens

By Rob Abbott, Charlie Bell

Charles Dickens

By Rod Mengham

George Herbert: A Portrait

By Nick Page

What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved

By John Mullan

arthur-miller

By christopher-bigsby

Seamus Heaney

By Helen Vendler

Larkin at Sixty

By Anthony Thwaite

Philip Larkin: The Man and His Work

By Dale Salwak

Back in the Day: The deeply affecting, first ever memoir by beloved national treasure Melvyn Bragg

By Melvyn Bragg

Hope Against Hope

By Nadezhda Mandelstam

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

By William Barrett