Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

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

By Jackie Bennett

The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography

By Robert DeMaria, Jr.

A Voyage Round My Father: A Play

By John Mortimer

Stephen Leacock: His Remarkable Life

By Albert Frank Moritz, Theresa Anne Moritz

David Mamet in Conversation

By Leslie Kane

My Heart Soars

By Dan George, Helmut Hirnschall

The Soul of a Woman

By Isabel Allende

Memories of Milligan

By Norma Farnes

George Eliot

By Jenny Uglow

Charles Dickens

By G. K. Chesterton

Dickens and the City

By F. S. Schwarzbach

Dickens: Shadows and Ghosts

By Barry Cundill

The Life and Work of Harold Pinter

By Michael Billington

Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life

By Claire Tomalin

Madder Music, Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson, Poet and Decadent

By Jad Adams

Stone Cottage: Pound, Yeats, and Modernism

By James Longenbach

Samuel Johnson

By John Wain

Antonin Artaud: Blows and Bombs

By Stephen Barber

John Gay, a Profession of Friendship

By David Nokes

Edgar the Playwright

By Susan Painter

Tragicomedy and Contemporary Culture: Play and Performance from Beckett to Shepard

By John Orr

Theatremachine

By Müller, Heiner

Oxford Literature Companions: King Lear

By Carmel Waldron

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

By Lord George Gordon Byron, Leslie A. Marchand

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

By Lord George Gordon Byron, Leslie A. Marchand

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

By Krista Halverson

Where I Was From

By Joan Didion

Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future

By Jason Epstein

Selected Letters

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

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

By Lord George Gordon Byron, Leslie A. Marchand