Biographies on Novelist & Playwrights

Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth

By Polly Atkin

Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History

By Sir Richard J. Evans

Blue Horses

By Mary Oliver

A Thousand Mornings

By Mary Oliver

Negative Capability: A Diary of Surviving

By Michele Roberts

Going Solo

By Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

Archaeologists in Print: Publishing for the People

By Amara Thornton

Becoming Muhammad Ali

By James Patterson, Kwame Alexander, Dawud Anyabwile

William Wordsworth Anthology

By William Wordsworth

Unkind to Unicorns: Comic Verse of A.E. Housman

By A. E. Housman, J.Roy Birch, David Harris

Death: Vintage Minis

By julian barnes

The Philip Larkin I Knew

By Maeve Brennan

The Brilliant Career of Winnie-the-Pooh: Story of A.A.Milne and His Writing for Children

By Ann Thwaite

Dared and Done: Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning

By Julia Markus

The Life of Irene Nemirovsky: 1903-1942

By Olivier Philipponnat, Patrick Lienhardt, Euan Cameron

Our Israeli Diary: Of That Time, Of That Place

By Antonia Fraser

Arthur Miller: His Life And Work

By Martin Gottfried

Against All Hope: Prison Memoirs

By Armando Valladares

The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History: Winner of the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019

By Edemariam, Aida

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

By Murakami, Haruki, Gabriel, Philip

The Bitter Taste of Victory: Life, Love and Art in the Ruins of the Reich

By Lara Feigel

Irene Nemirovsky: Her Life and Works

By Jonathan Weiss

For Whom Do I Toil?: Judah Leib Gordon and the Crisis of Russian Jewry

By Michael Stanislawski (Assistant Professor of History on the Miller Endowment, Assistant Professor of History on the Miller Endowment, Columbia University)

Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters

By Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann

George Eliot, Voice of a Century: A Biography

By Frederick R. Karl (New York University.)

Timebends: A life (A Methuen paperback)

By Miller, Arthur

Dirk Bogarde: The authorised biography

By John Coldstream

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History (Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Winner)

By Norman Mailer

Anton Chekhov: A Life

By Donald Rayfield

Song of the Distant Dove: Judah Halevi's Pilgrimage

By Raymond P. Scheindlin (Professor of Medieval Hebrew Literature, Professor of Medieval Hebrew Literature, Jewish Theological Seminary)