Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

The World of Jane Austen

By Nigel Nicolson, Stephen Colover

A Dance with Jane Austen: How a Novelist and her Characters Went to the Ball

By Susannah Fullerton, Deirdre Le Faye

Wilde

By Jonathan Fryer

A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story

By Polly Morland, Richard Baker

Diary of an Invasion

By Andrey Kurkov

A Death in Malta: An assassination and a family's quest for justice

By Paul Caruana Galizia

William Wordsworth: A Biography

By Hunter Davies

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Joyce, James

Dear Leader: North Korea's senior propagandist exposes shocking truths behind the regime

By Jang Jin-Sung

Simone De Beauvoir

By D Bair

The Last Leopard

By David Gilmour

James Joyce

By Andrew Gibson

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

Chaucer: A Beginner's Guide

By Dr. Catherine Richardson

Splendours and Miseries: Biography of Sacheverell Sitwell

By Sarah H. Bradford

No Time for Romance

By Lucilla Andrews

George Eliot (Very Interesting People S.)

By Rosemary Ashton

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

By William Barrett

Hope Against Hope

By Nadezhda Mandelstam

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

By Melvyn Bragg

The Invisible Woman

By Claire Tomalin

Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited

By Philip Eade

Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters

By Daniel Stashower, Jon L. Lellenberg, Charles Foley