Top 10 Literary Biographies
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About this list
Guardian, 10 Books
A list of works from the era after the second world war by Jay Parini, who has written seven books about authors including the delightfully titled Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal.
This list was originally published in 2015 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 868 | Henry James | Leon Edel | 1953 | American | English | |
| 4389 | James Joyce | Richard Ellmann | 1959 | American | English | |
| 9582 | Edith Wharton | R. W. B. Lewis | 1975 | American | English | |
| 10451 | The Life Of Langston Hughes | Arnold Rampersad | 1986 | American | English | |
| 14985 | Shelley | Richard Holmes | 1974 | British | English | |
| 17152 | Dickens | Peter Ackroyd | 1990 | British | English | |
| 10451 | Will In The World | Stephen Greenblatt | 2004 | American | English | |
| 17152 | Tolstoy | A. N. Wilson | 1988 | British | English | |
| 17152 | The Imperfect Life Of T. S. Eliot | Lyndall Gordon | 1998 | British | English | |
| 10451 | The World Is What It Is | Patrick French | 2008 | Trinidadian | English |