Literary Biographies
TWENTY OF THE BEST WRITTEN SINCE 1950
Peter Ackroyd
T. S. Eliot: A Life 1984
Walter Jackson Bate
Samuel Johnson 1978
Jane Dunn
Antonia White: A Life 1998
Leon Edel
Henry James 1953–1972
(5 volumes)
Richard Ellmann
James Joyce 1959
Roy Foster
Yeats 1997
Ian Gibson
Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life 1988
Gordon Haight
George Eliot 1968
Ian Hamilton
Robert Lowell 1977
Richard Holmes
Footsteps, Adventures of a Romantic Biographer 1985
Michael Holroyd
Lytton Strachey 1994
(one-volume edition)
Hermione Lee
Virginia Woolf 1996
Fiona MacCarthy
William Morris: A Life for Our Time 1994
Bernard Martin
Tennyson: An Unquiet Mind 1980
George Painter
Marcel Proust: A Biography 1989
(one-volume revised edition)
Graham Robb
Victor Hugo 1997
Richard B. Sewell
Emily Dickinson 1996
Jon Stallworthy
Wilfred Owen 1974
Claire Tomalin
Jane Austen 1997
Jenny Uglow
Elizabeth Gaskelclass="underline" A Habit of Stories 1993
Poetry
TWENTY OF THE BEST COLLECTIONS PUBLISHED SINCE 1950
John Ashbery
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 1977
W. H. Auden
City Without Walls 1969
Elizabeth Bishop
Complete Poems, 1927–1979 1986
Paul Durcan
A Snail in My Prime: New and Selected Poems 1993
Thom Gunn
My Sad Captains 1961
Seamus Heaney
Field Work 1979
Anthony Hecht
Millions of Strange Shadows 1977
Geoffrey Hill
King Log 1968
Ted Hughes
The Hawk in the Rain 1957
Philip Larkin
The Whitsun Weddings 1964
Robert Lowell
Robert Lowell’s Poems: A Selection 1974
Derek Mahon
The Snow Party 1974
Les Murray
The Vernacular Republic 1982
Howard Nemerov
The Western Approaches 1975
Sylvia Plath
Ariel 1965
Adrienne Rich
The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New 1950–1984 1984
Theodore Roethke
Collected Poems 1966
Anne Sexton
Complete Poems 1981
R. S. Thomas
Song at the Year’s Turning 1955
Derek Walcott
The Star-Apple Kingdom 1979
Autobiographies and memoirs by novelists chosen in this book
Chinua Achebe
Home and Exile 2000
Martin Amis
Experience 2000
Kingsley Amis
Memoirs 1991
J. G. Ballard
Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton 2008
Julian Barnes
Nothing to be Frightened of 2008
Sybille Bedford
Quicksands: A Memoir 2005
Elizabeth Bowen
Seven Winters 1942
Bowen’s Court 1942
John Cheever
The Journals of John Cheever 1991
Agatha Christie
Autobiography 1977
Joan Didion
The Year of Magical Thinking 2005
Isak Dinesen
Out of Africa 1937
Anthony Burgess
Little Wilson and Big God 1987
You’ve Had Your Time 1990
John Fowles
The Journals Volume 1 1949–1965 2003
The Journals Volume 2 1965–1990 2006
Janet Frame
To the Is-Land 1983
An Angel at My Table 1984
The Envoy from Mirror City 1985
Graham Greene
A Sort of Life 1971
Ways of Escape 1980
Shirley Hazzard
Greene on Capri: A Memoir 2000
Roy Heath
Shadows Round the Moon: Caribbean Memoirs 1990
Joseph Heller
Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here 1998
Ernest Hemingway
A Moveable Feast 1964
P. D. James
Time to be in Earnest 2000
Margaret Laurence
Dance on the Earth 1990
Rosamond Lehmann
The Swan in the Evening 1967
Doris Lessing
Under My Skin, Volume 1 of my Autobiography 1994
Walking in the Shade, Volume 2 of my Autobiography 1996
David Lodge
The Year of Henry James 2006
Mary McCarthy
Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood 1957
How I Grew 1987
Intellectual Memoirs, New York 1936–1938 1992
John McGahern
Memoir 2005
David Malouf
12 Edmonstone Street 1985
Frank Moorhouse
Martini: A Memoir 2005
R. K. Narayan
My Days 1975
Vladimir Nabokov
Speak, Memory 1951
(new edition 1966)