The Brothers Grimm by Ann Schmiesing
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A new life of the famous storytellers
Read MoreChristopher Isherwood: Inside Out by Katherine Bucknell
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A big new biography of Christopher Isherwood
Read MoreHardy Women by Paula Byrne
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A look at the women (real and imaginary) in the life of author Thomas Hardy
Read MoreCarson McCullers: A Life by Mary V. Dearborn
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Using newly available sources, Mary V. Dearborn explores the complicated life of a brilliant writer of Southern Gothic fiction.
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The Marriage Question by Clare Carlisle
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A philosopher considers how George Eliot wrote about—and experienced—marriage.
Read MoreThe Novel, Who Needs It? by Joseph Epstein
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The latest from legendary critic and editor Joseph Epstein.
Read MoreOrwell: The New Life by DJ Taylor
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DJ Taylor’s new elaboration on his much-praised life of George Orwell.
Read MoreSpillane: King of Pulp Fiction by Max Allan Collins & James L. Traylor
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A new biography of the crime novelist Mickey Spillane.
Read MoreLydia Maria Child by Lydia Moland
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A big, generous new biography of abolitionist Lydia Maria Child.
Read MoreEliot After "The Waste Land" by Robert Crawford
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The concluding volume of a great two-volume biography of TS Eliot.
Read MoreI Used To Live Here Once by Miranda Seymour
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A new biography of the author of “The Wide Sargasso Sea.”
Read MoreThe Life of Mark Twain: The Final Years by Gary Scharnhorst
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A foremost Mark Twain scholar completes his three-volume biography of the author.
Read MoreThe Turning Point by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
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A new book cites 1851 as a key year in the career of Charles Dickens.
Read MoreBright Star, Green Light by Jonathan Bate
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The parallel lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Read MorePessoa by Richard Zenith
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Richard Zenith writes the definitive biography of the “ever-elusive” Fernando Pessoa.
Read MoreDevils, Lust and Strange Desires by Richard Bradford
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A new biography of the author of “The Talented Mr. Ripley.”
Read MoreRadical Wordsworth by Jonathan Bate
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Jonathan Bate writes about the young firebrand William Wordsworth.
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