Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

John Wheatley (Lives of the Left)

By Wood, Ian S.

History Play: The Lives and After-life of Christopher Marlowe

By Bolt, Rodney

This Wooden O: Shakespeare's Globe Reborn: Achieving an American's Dream (Limelight)

By Barry Day

Hollywood Animal

By Eszterhas, Joe

Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare ?

By Shapiro, James

The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

By Thompson, Laura

Memoirs of an Egotist (Hesperus Classics)

By Stendhal, Doris Lessing (foreword), Andrew Brown (translator)

The Life Of Henry Brulard (New York Review Books Classics)

By Stendahl, Davis, Lydia, Sturrock, John

Chagrin d'école

By Pennac, Daniel

Richard Brinsley Sheridan: A Life

By Kelly, Linda

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

By Alison Bechdel, Bechdel, Alison

Memory Maps

By St. Aubin de Teran, Lisa

Poets (Favourite)

By Jones, Kate

Sometimes the Magic Works

By Brooks, Terry

Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes

By Mount, Ferdinand

I Saw Ramallah

By Barghouti, Mourid, Said, Edward, Soueif, Ahdaf

The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist: Understanding What Happens When We Write and Read Novels

By Pamuk, Orhan, Dikbas, Nazim

Chaucer's Poetry: An Anthology for the Modern Reader

By Donaldson

The Perfect Stranger (Lives & letters)

By P. J. Kavanagh

Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

By Trethewey, Natasha

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Perennial Classics)

By Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich

Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing

By Clare, Horatio

Such Stuff: A Story-maker's Inspiration

By Morpurgo, Sir Michael, Foreman, Michael

Granta 161: Sister, Brother

By Rausing, Sigrid

Poetry and Prose (Golden Age of Spiritual Writing): 11

By Thomas Traherne, Denise Inge

Prometheus: The Life of Balzac

By Maurois, Andre

Set Me On Fire: A Poem For Every Feeling

By Risbridger, Ella

Pushkin’s Button

By Vitale, Serena, Goldstein, Ann

Have Knife, Will Travel: Poems from a surgeon on cancer, cake and crossing continents

By Bhattacharya, Satya

One Day I Will Write About This Place

By Wainaina, Binyavanga