Literary Biography


Charles Dickens
The Brontës
Jane Austen: A Life
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry's Greatest Generation
Virginia Woolf
Jane Austen at Home
Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart
Thomas Hardy
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThe Big Sea by Langston HughesDust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale HurstonOut of Africa by Isak DinesenThe Man Who Invented Christmas by Les Standiford
Author Biographies and Memoirs
598 books — 100 voters

A Moveable Feast by Ernest HemingwayWill in the World by Stephen GreenblattI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouDown and Out in Paris and London by George OrwellOut of Africa / Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen
Literary biographies
483 books — 99 voters