Litterära biografier

'This honest, engaging memoir shares such gems . . . the perfect read for anyone who dreams big' The Times and Sunday Times, Books of the Year The powerful, urgent memoir and …

Winner of the National Book Award 2005 for nonfiction From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely …

The first biography of Robert Crumb—one of the most profound and influential artists of the 20th century—whose iconic, radically frank and meticulously rendered cartoons and comics …

Samuel Johnson was a poet, essayist, dramatist, and pioneering lexicographer, but his continuing reputation depends less on his literary output than on the fortunate accident of …

Många har skrivit om poeten Edith Södergran. Otaliga har tolkat hennes dikter, läst hennes brev och dragit slutsatser om hennes liv. Att hon var en ambitiös fotograf är inte lika …

Maya Angelous självbiografiska bok Brev till min dotter. Medborgarrättskämpe, författare, sångerska, dansare - många beteckningar kan sättas på Maya Angelou, som dock är mest känd …

In the Future of Yesterday offers a refreshing approach to the life and work of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, delving into his considerable contribution to world literature, rooted …

The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 is the first in a nine volume series in the influential artist and thinker's own words, covering the time when Nin is about to publish her …

*A Times, Telegraph, TLS and Prospect Book of the Year**Winner of the 2024 PEN/ Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography*‘The best book I've read on George Eliot’ John Carey, …