books by subject

Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

Filter by available

Letter to My Mother

By Georges Simenon

The Survivor

By Primo Levi

Boy: Tales of Childhood

By Roald Dahl

Boy: Tales of Childhood

By Roald Dahl

Seminary Boy

By Cornwell, John

A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson

By Peter J. Conradi

J. G. Frazer: His Life and Work

By Robert Ackerman (University of the Arts, Philadelphia)

The Wife's Tale: A Personal History

By Aida Edemariam

Ryszard Kapuscinski: A Life

By Artur Domoslawski, Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Mozambique Mysteries

By Lisa St. Aubin De Teran

Isaac Rosenberg: The Making Of A Great War Poet

By Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Chagrin d'ecole (Folio)

By Pennac, Daniel

Billy

By Stephenson, Pamela

A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

By Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway, Sean Hemingway

Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for Himself

By Ann Wroe

The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination

By Richard Mabey

Dog Years: A Memoir

By Mark Doty

Backing into the Limelight: The Biography of Alan Bennett

By Alexander Games

Screaming with Joy: The Life of Allen Ginsberg

By Graham Caveney

Georges Simenon

By David Carter

The Girl From Aleppo: Nujeen’s Escape From War to Freedom

By Mustafa, Nujeen, Lamb, Christina

The Measure of My Powers: A Memoir of Food, Misery, and Paris

By Jackie Kay Ellis

An Autobiography: 25th Anniversary Commemorative Edition

By Agatha Christie

An Autobiography: 25th Anniversary Commemorative Edition

By Agatha Christie

Blackout: Remembering the things I drank to forget

By Hepola, Sarah

John Le Carre: The Biography

By Adam Sisman

James Joyce

By Frank Startup

The Joyce We Knew: Memoirs of Joyce

By Ulick O'Connor

A.A. Milne: His Life

By Ann Thwaite

W. B. Yeats, A Life I: The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914

By R. F. Foster (Carroll Professor of Irish History, Carroll Professor of Irish History, Hertford College, Oxford)