Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

The Life of Walter Scott: A Critical Biography

By John Sutherland

The Outsider

By Frederick Forsyth

The Waste Land and Other Writings

By T.S. Eliot, Mary Karr

The Girl from Leam Lane: The Life and Writing of Catherine Cookson

By Piers Dudgeon

The Bondage of Love: A Life of Mrs. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

By Lefebure, Molly

All My Yesterdays: An Autobiography

By Cecil Lewis

Robert Graves: v. 1: The Assault Heroic, 1895-1926

By Richard Perceval Graves

Prince Charming: a Memoir

By Christopher Logue

Pushkin: The Man and His Age

By Robin Edmonds

High Flight: The Life and Poetry of Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee

Teacher Man

By McCourt, Frank

My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times: An Autobiography

By Harold Evans

Deep Magic, Dragons and Talking Mice: How Reading C.S. Lewis Can Change Your Life

By Dr Alister E McGrath

Stevie, a Biography of Stevie Smith

By Associate Professor of English Jack Barbera (University of Mississippi), Professor of English William McBrien (Hofstra University)

The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint

By William Shakespeare

My Russian Grandmother And Her American Vacuum Cleaner

By Meir Shalev

The Durrells of Corfu

By Michael Haag

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

By Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey

Going Solo

By Dahl, Roald, Blake, Quentin

Motherwell: The moving memoir of growing up in 60s and 70s working class Scotland

By Deborah Orr

William Shakespeare: A Life

By Garry O'Connor

Alphonse de Lamartine: A Political Biography

By William Fortesque

I, Wabenzi: A Souvenir

By Rafi Zabor

The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson's Guide to Life

By Henry Hitchings

Travels with Charley in Search of America

By John Steinbeck

Running in the Family

By Michael Ondaatje

Ezra Pound and His World

By Peter Ackroyd

Oscar Wilde

By Vyvyan Holland

What Was Shakespeare Really Like?

By Stanley Wells (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon), Stephen Fry

Black Boy: A Record of Youth and Childhood

By Richard Wright, Geoffrey Summerfield