Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

Strange Places, Questionable People

By Simpson, John, John Simpson

Omar Khayyam: Poet, Rebel, Astronomer

By Hazhir Teimourian

Faulkner: A Biography

By Joseph Leo Blotner

Beside the Sea (Melrose and Croc)

By Chichester Clark, Emma, Chichester Clark, Emma

Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics

By Tom Keymer (, University of Toronto)

William Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction

By Stanley Wells (Honorary President, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)

Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark

By Volker Weidermann, Carol Janeway

Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith

By Emma Mason (Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick)

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)

The Dubliner: The Lives, Times and Writings of James Clarence Mangan

By Brendan Clifford

William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life

By Samuel Schoenbaum

Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography: New Evidence of an Authorship Problem: 94 (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies)

By Diana Price

The Real Shakepeare – Retrieving the Early Years 1564–1594

By Sams, Eric