Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

Ex Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer

By Norman Podhoretz

The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

By Lyndall Gordon

Land of Evening

By Jean Mambrino, Kathleen Raine

Train to Budapest

By Dacia Maraini

Swedish Reflections: From Beowulf to Bergman

By Judith Black, Jim Potts, Michael Holroyd

The Phoenix Land

By Miklos Banffy

The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing

By Thomas Harding

The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon

By Simon Fenwick

Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author

By Herman Wouk

Snakes and Ladders

By Dirk Bogarde

Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle (the Country Nurse Series, Book One)

By Mary J MacLeod, Lady Claire MacDonald of MacDonald

Afloat: A Memoir

By Danie Couchman

The Mirador

By Elisabeth Gille

Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy

By Park Honan (Emeritus Professor, School of English, University of Leeds)

The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life

By Amy Tan

Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth

By Nigel Jones

Wordsworth: A Life

By Juliet Barker

Bernard Shaw: v. 2: Pursuit of Power, 1898-1918

By Michael Holroyd

Lure of Fantasy, The:Bernard Shaw Volume III 1918-1950: Lure of Fantasy, 1918-50 v. 3

By Holroyd, M

Stieg Larsson - the Man Who Left Too Soon: The Biography

By Barry Forshaw

Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats - A Portrait

By Barry Miles

Off the Road: Twenty Years with Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg

By Carolyn Cassady

Heinrich Heine: A Modern Biography

By Sammons, Jeffrey L.

Kafka's Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant

By Kathi Diamant

The World of Christopher Marlowe

By Professor David Riggs

Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books

By Cathy Rentzenbrink

84 Charing Cross Road

By Helene Hanff, Juliet Stevenson

Memoirs Of An Anti-Semite

By Gregor Von Rezzori

Between Them: Remembering My Parents

By Richard Ford

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

By Simon Winchester