Sylvia Plath
The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1982
Anthony Powell
Infants of the Spring 1978
Messengers of the Day 1978
Faces in My Time 1980
The Strangers All Are Gone 1982
Published as one volume: To Keep the Ball Rolling 1983
V. S. Pritchett
The Cab at the Door 1968
Midnight Oil 1971
Philip Roth
The Facts: A Novelist’s Autobiography 1989
Frank Sargeson
Once is Enough 1972
More Than Enough 1975
Never Enough 1978
Published as one volume: Sargeson 1981
Vikram Seth
Two Lives 2005
Alan Sillitoe
Life Without Armour 1995
Kushwant Singh
Truth, Love and a Little Malice 2002
Wole Soyinka
Ake: The Years of Childhood
Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years: A Memoir 1946–1965
Muriel Spark
Curriculum Vitae — Autobiography 1992
Robert Stone
Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties 2007
William Styron
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness 1991
William Trevor
Excursions in the Real World: Memoirs 1994
John Updike
Self-Consciousness: Memoirs 1989
Evelyn Waugh
A Little Learning 1964
Eudora Welty
One Writer’s Beginnings 1984
Tobias Wolff
This Boy’s Life 1989
In Pharoah’s Army 1995
Literary biographies of novelists chosen in this book
Chinua Achebe
Christophe Tshikala Kamgaji
Chinua Achebe: A Novelist and A Portrait of His Society 2004
Kingsley Amis
Zachary Leader
The Life of Kingsley Amis 2006
James Baldwin
James Campbell
Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin 1992
Samuel Beckett
Anthony Cronin
Samuel Beckett. The Last Modernist 1996
James Knowlson
Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett 1996
Elizabeth Bowen
Victoria Glendinning
Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer 1977
William Burroughs
Ted Morgan
Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William Burroughs 1988
Raymond Chandler
Tom Hiney
Raymond Chandler: A Biography 1997
Bruce Chatwin
Susannah Clapp
With Chatwin: Portrait of a Writer 1997
Nicholas Shakespeare
Bruce Chatwin 1999
John Cheever
Scott Donaldson
John Cheever: A biography 1988
Blake Bailey
Cheever: A life 2009
Agatha Christie
Laura Thompson
Agatha Christie: The Biography of Agatha Christie 2004
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Hilary Spurting
Ivy When Young: The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884–1919 1974
The Secrets of a Woman’s Heart: The Later Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1920–1969 1984
Robertson Davies
Judith Skelton Grant
Robertson Davies: Man of Myth 1994
Isak Dinesen
Judith Thurman
Isak Dinesen: The Life of A Story Teller 1986
Daphne du Maurier
Margaret Forster
Daphne du Maurier 1993
Ralph Ellison
Lawrence Jackson
Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius 2002
J. G. Farrell
Lavinia Greacen
J. G. Farrelclass="underline" The Making of A Writer 1999
William Faulkner
Frederick R. Karl
William Faulkner: American Writer 1989
John Fowles
Eileen Warburton
John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds 2004
William Golding
John Carey
William Golding, A Life 2009
Nadine Gordimer
Ronald Suresh Roberts
No Cold Kitchen: A Biography of Nadine Gordimer 2005
Alasdair Gray
Rodge Glass
Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography 2008
Henry Green
Jeremy Treglown
Romancing: The Life and Times of Henry Green 2001
Graham Greene
Norman Sherry
The Life of Graham Greene Vol 1: 1904–1939 1989
The Life of Graham Greene Vol 2: 1939–1955 1995
The Life of Graham Greene Vol 3: 1956–1991 2004
Patrick Hamilton
Sean French
Patrick Hamilton 1993
Ernest Hemingway
Carlos Baker
Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story 1969
Georgette Heyer
Jane Aiken Hodge
The Private World of Georgette Heyer
B. S. Johnson
Jonathan Coe
Like A Fiery Elephant: A Life of B. S. Johnson 2005
Jack Kerouac
Barry Miles
Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats 1998
Rosamond Lehmann
Selina Hastings
Rosamond Lehmann: A Life 2002
Norman Mailer
Peter Manso
Mailer: His Life and Times 1989
Mary McCarthy
Frances Kiernan
Seeing Mary Plane: A Life of Mary McCarthy
Carson McCullers
Virginia Spencer
Carr The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers 1975
Olivia Manning
Neville Braybrooke and June Braybrooke
Olivia Manning: A Life 2004
William Maxwell
Barbara A. Burckhardt
William Maxwelclass="underline" A Literary Life 2005
Brian Moore
Patricia Craig
Brian Moore: A Biography 2003
Vladimir Nabokov
Brian Boyd
Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years 1990
Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years 1991
V. S. Naipaul
Patrick French