Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book

By Emma Smith (Fellow and Tutor in English, Fellow and Tutor in English, Hertford College, University of Oxford)

A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert

By Gertrude Bell

Selected Letters

By Charlotte Brontë, Margaret Smith, Janet Gezari (Lucy Marsh Haskell '19 Professor of English, Connecticut College)

Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future

By Jason Epstein

Daily Rituals Women at Work: How Great Women Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work

By Mason Currey

Oxford Literature Companions: King Lear

By Carmel Waldron

Where I Was From

By Joan Didion

Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart

By Krista Halverson

Letters and Journals: v. 8: 1821, Born for Opposition

By Lord George Gordon Byron, Leslie A. Marchand

Letters and Journals: v. 7: 1820, Between Two Worlds

By Lord George Gordon Byron, Leslie A. Marchand

Letters and Journals: v. 6: 1818-19, The Flesh is Frail

By Lord George Gordon Byron, Leslie A. Marchand

Letters and Journals: v. 11: 1823-24, For Freedom's Battle

By Lord George Gordon Byron, Leslie A. Marchand

Letters and Journals: v. 5: So Late into the Night

By Lord George Gordon Byron, Leslie A. Marchand

Letters and Journals: v. 10: 1822-23, A Heart for Every Fate

By Lord George Gordon Byron, Leslie A. Marchand

Letters and Journals: v. 9: 1821-22, In the Wind's Eye

By Lord George Gordon Byron, Leslie A. Marchand

Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey

By Janet Malcolm

The Faber Companion to Samuel Beckett: A Reader's Guide to his Works, Life, and Thought

By C. J. Ackerley, Professor Stanley Gontarski

Shakespeare Without a Life

By Margreta de Grazia (Emerita Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor of the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania)

Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City

By Anna Quindlen

Auden

By R. P. T. Davenport-Hines

Marquis de Sade: The Genius of Passion

By Ronald Hayman

Negative Capability: A Diary of Surviving

By Michele Roberts

Oscar Wilde

By David Pritchard

Edward Thomas

By R. George Thomas

Charlotte Bronte

By Jane Sellars

George Eliot

By Marghanita Laski

William Shakespeare: A Life

By Garry O'Connor

A Curious Friendship: The Story of a Bluestocking and a Bright Young Thing

By Anna Thomasson

Hemingway in Love: His Own Story

By A.E. Hotchner

The Liars' Club

By Mary Karr