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A Voyage Round My Father: A Play

By John Mortimer

The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography

By Robert DeMaria, Jr.

The Writer's Garden: How Gardens Inspired our Best-loved Authors

By Jackie Bennett

Dylan Thomas & Vernon Watkins: Portrait of a Friendship

By Gwen Watkins

Gérard de Nerval

By Norma Rinsler

The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound 1907-1941

By Ezra Pound

End to torment: Ed. by Norman Holmes Pearson and Michael King. With the poems from "Hilda's book" by Ezra Pound

By Hilda Doolittle

Richard Aldington: Reappraisals

By Charles Doyle

Ezra Pound in London and Paris, 1908-1925

By James J. Wilhelm

Richard Aldington: An Autobiography in Letters

By Richard Aldington, Norman T. Gates

The Life of Ezra Pound

By Noel Stock

Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells

By Bernard Shaw, Herbert George Wells

Dario Fo and Franca Rame: Harlequins of the Revolution

By Joseph Farrell

Behind the Scenes: Yeats, Horniman, and the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre

By Adrian Woods Frazier, Professor Adrian Frazier

Shakespeare, the Player: A Life in the Theatre

By John Southworth

Shakespeare

By I. Wilson

Fat Chance

By Simon Gray

Dante the Maker

By William Anderson

Edward Lear and His World

By John Lehmann

Blue Above the Chimneys

By Christine Marion Fraser

Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story

By Amanda Vaill

The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels

By Adam Nicolson

Other People's Countries: A Journey Into Memory

By Patrick McGuinness

Roaring Boys: Playwrights and Players in Elizabethan and Jacobean England

By Judith Cook

William Wordsworth: The Borders of Vision

By Jonathan Wordsworth

J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography

By Humphrey Carpenter

A Fork in the Road: A Memoir

By Brink, Andre

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

By Donald Sturrock

Café Des Artistes

By John Hartley Williams

The Heart to Artemis: A Writer's Memoir

By Bryher