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On Publishing: A Professional Memoir

By Leventhal, Lionel

Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life

By Greenberg, Michael

William Blake (World of Art S.)

By Kathleen Raine, Raine, Kathleen

Papillon (P.S.)

By Charrière, Henri

Elizabeth Jennings: 'The Inward War'

By Greene, Dana

John Moore: True Countryman

By Cole, David

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Everyman's Poetry Library)

By Barrett, Browning Elizabeth, Graham, Colin

Sex and Shopping: The Confessions of a Nice Jewish Girl

By Krantz, Judith

An Autobiography

By Agatha Christie

Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books

By Hilary Mantel

More Dashing: Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor

By Patrick Leigh Fermor, Adam Sisman

The Sappho Companion

By Margaret Reynolds

Keats

By Andrew Motion

The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake

By Gerald Eades Bentley

To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays

By Czeslaw Milosz, Milosz, Bogdana Carpenter

Tennyson

By Robert Bernard Martin

The First Poets

By Michael Schmidt

W. B. Yeats

By Micheal Mac Liammoir, Eavan Boland

Whitman the Political Poet

By Betsy Erkkila (Professor of English, Professor of English, Northwestern University)

In the Dorian Mode: Life of John Gray, 1866-1934

By Brocard Sewell

The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations

By Peter Kemp

The Sailor in the Wardrobe

By Hugo Hamilton

Emily Bronte

By Stevie Davies

Richard III: A Sourcebook

By Keith Dockray

Autobiographies: v. 2

By Sean O'Casey

The Road to Nab End: A Lancashire Childhood

By William Woodruff

Elizabeth: Eighty Glorious Years

By Bond, Jennie

The Dyer's Hand

By W. H. Auden

The Life of Walter De La Mare

By Theresa Whistler

Manuel Puig and the Spiderwoman: His Life and Fiction

By Suzanne Jill Levine