Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

Brendan Behan

By O'Connor, Ulick

Paul Durcan's Diary

By Durcan, Paul

Shakespeare A to Z

By Boyce

Damned to Fame: Life of Samuel Beckett

By Knowlson, James

Second Readings : 52: From Beckett To Black Beauty

By Eileen Battersby

The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (Penguin Classics S.)

By Fielding, Henry, Kaymer, Tom

The Golden Legend: Selections (Penguin Classics)

By di Voragine, Jacobo, Hamer, Richard, Stace, Christopher

Stevie Smith: a Critical Biography

By Spalding, Frances

Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me

By Clanchy, Kate

One Leg Over: Having Fun - Mostly - In Peace and War

By Robin Dalton

Scum of the Earth

By Arthur Koestler

Mom and Me and Mom

By Dr Maya Angelou

Gather Together In My Name

By Dr Maya Angelou

Torch in My Ear

By Canetti, Elias

You've Had Your Time

By Burgess, Anthony

Chaucer: Brief Lives

By Peter Ackroyd, Ackroyd, Peter

Play of the Eyes

By Canetti, Elias

Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution

By Todd, Professor Selina

Introducing Shakespeare (Penguin literary criticism)

By Harrison, G.

The Dark Child: The Autobiography of an African Boy

By Laye, Camara, Jones, Ernest, Kirkup, James

North Face of Soho: Unreliable Memoirs Volume IV: More Unreliable Memoirs

By Clive James

Roald Dahl (Famous People Famous Lives)

By Fischel, Emma

Love from Boy: Roald Dahl's Letters to his Mother

By Sturrock, Donald

Dickens

By Ackroyd, Peter

Samuel Johnson: A Biography

By Martin, Peter

Shakespeare (Thames & Hudson Literary Lives)

By F. E. Halliday

Agatha Christie: A biography

By Janet Morgan, Morgan, Janet

The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick (New York Review Books Classics)

By Elizabeth Hardwick, Darryl Pinckney

Thomas Hardy: His Life and Work (Panther Books)

By Halliday, F.E.

Shakespeare (Life And Works)

By Christopher Martin