Biography

This eleventh volume presents 1158 letters, many previously unpublished or published only in part, for...

This volume presents 918 letters, 435 previously unpublished, for the years 1862 to 1864. Our...

The First World War inspired a huge outpouring of writing, including many classic accounts of...

At the beginning of 1778, twenty-five-year-old Fanny Burney, second daughter of England's most eminent musicologist,...

Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer--a man who...

The 1999 Hemingway centennial marks the perfect time for the reevaluation of his position as...

There is no question that Emerson has maintained his place as one of the seminal...

Few authors are so well suited to historical study as Whitman, who is widely considered...

"Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man," writes the narrator...

The first volume of a major new critical biography Ford Madox Ford wrote some of...

The second volume of Max Saunders's magisterial biography of Ford Madox Ford takes up the...

The Private Life of William Shakespeare tells the story of Shakespeare as a family man...

The Unknown God is the first documentary study of Thelema, a twentieth-century religious movement in...

The Reports of Theophilus Opoku details the letters of a pastor living in the ethnically...

The poet David Gascoyne (1916-2001) led a life as surreal as his early poems. At...

In this new concise biography Thomas Jefferson historian R.B. Bernstein finds the key to this...

'At three in the morning I crept out of Carlsbad, they wouldn't have let me...

This work is a systematic study of Bal Gangadhar Tilak's thought, focusing on his views...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Fyodor Dostoevsky became the writer best known for his...

Ernest Dowson: Lyric Lives is the first full-length critical study of this canonical writer to...

De gestis Giraldi is a narrative of the deeds of Gerald of Wales (c. 1146-1223),...

The girl who would become George Eliot began her professional writing life with a poem...

These letters give an insight into the life of a writer whose novels continue to...

From the beginning of his career, Swiss theologian Karl Barth (1886-1969) was often in conflict...

Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928) is famous worldwide for founding the Garden City movement, and he continues...

A complex and captivating portrait of Mark Antony that offers a fresh perspective on the...

Much has been written about the French Revolution and especially its bloody phase known as...

Woman Much Missed is the first book-length study of the many poems (over 150) that...

Indira Parthasarathy's Tamil play 'Ramanujar' was awarded the Saraswati Samman by the K.K. Birla Foundation...

In a remarkable literary career, Andrew Lang challenged the increasing specialism that accompanied the advance...

'I obey my happy hour's command, which seems curiously imperative. May-be, if I don't do...

The lives of the outstanding scholars celebrated in the volume often reveal unexpected personal and...

Autobiographies is the first volume in Edward Thomas: Prose Writings: A Selected Edition. It contains...

The high society of Stuart England found Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck (1602-1645) an exasperating...

Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare's First FolioThis is the biography of...

A dual biography of Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger that offers a dire warning:...

In this short biography, Michael Schaller, acclaimed historian of the American political right, offers readers...

Sir Isaac Newton once declared that his momentous discoveries were only made thanks to having...

How did one man's critique of capitalism guide the course of modern history?When he died...

"That rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf," Clarice Lispector...

In the first authorized biography of W. B. Yeats for over 50 years, Roy Foster...

The acclaimed first volume of this definitive biography of W. B. Yeats left him in...

Reading other people's letters, like reading private diaries, offers thrilling and unexpected glimpses into their...

Biography appears to thrive as never before; and there clearly remains a broad readership for...