Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

Against All Hope: Prison Memoirs

By Armando Valladares

The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History: Winner of the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019

By Edemariam, Aida

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

By Murakami, Haruki, Gabriel, Philip

The Bitter Taste of Victory: Life, Love and Art in the Ruins of the Reich

By Lara Feigel

Irene Nemirovsky: Her Life and Works

By Jonathan Weiss

For Whom Do I Toil?: Judah Leib Gordon and the Crisis of Russian Jewry

By Michael Stanislawski (Assistant Professor of History on the Miller Endowment, Assistant Professor of History on the Miller Endowment, Columbia University)

Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters

By Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann

George Eliot, Voice of a Century: A Biography

By Frederick R. Karl (New York University.)

Timebends: A life (A Methuen paperback)

By Miller, Arthur

Dirk Bogarde: The authorised biography

By John Coldstream

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History (Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Winner)

By Norman Mailer

Anton Chekhov: A Life

By Donald Rayfield

Song of the Distant Dove: Judah Halevi's Pilgrimage

By Raymond P. Scheindlin (Professor of Medieval Hebrew Literature, Professor of Medieval Hebrew Literature, Jewish Theological Seminary)

Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman

By John Garrard, Carol Garrard

BYRON SHELLEY & THEIR CIRCLE

Russian Roulette: 'A brilliant new life of Graham Greene' - Evening Standard

By Richard Greene

Molly Keane: A Life

By Sally Phipps

A Brief Guide to William Shakespeare

By Peter Ackroyd

The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World

By George Prochnik

Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936

By Volker Weidermann, Carol Brown Janeway

The Nemirovsky Question: The Life, Death, and Legacy of a Jewish Writer in Twentieth-Century France

By Susan Rubin Suleiman

The Double Bond: Primo Levi - A Biography

By Carole Angier

These Bodies of Water: A Personal History of the British Empire in the Middle East

By Sabrina Mahfouz

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

By Michelle Dean

One Pair of Feet: 'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens ... she's blissfully funny' Nina Stibbe

By Monica Dickens, Marina Lewycka

Edith Wharton and the French Riviera

By Elizabeth Collas

All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE

By Simon Garfield

Kafka

By Pietro Citati

Life Is a Joke: A Writer's Memoir

By Rosemary Friedman

The Village Book

By Nicolas Freeling