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What are some biographies on authors? I'll self-bump with my own list shortly.

>> No.2024352

Yeats by Richard Ellmann
James Joyce by Richard Ellmann
Wilde by Richard Ellmann
The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde by Merlin Holland
The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde by Neil McKenna
Built of Books by Thomas Wright
Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess
Jane Austen by Claire Tomalin
Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee

>> No.2024354

There are several biographies out there for Yukio Mishima. One by John Nathan, Henry Scott-Stokes, Marguerite Yourcenar, Christopher Ross, and probably a lot of others. I have no clue which is the best of them all though. I'd like to throw that question out to anybody here who has read any of them.

>> No.2024359

Lytton Strachey by Michael Holroyd

>> No.2024365

Want autobiographies too, or no?

>> No.2024393

>>2024365
I (OP) suppose so. Anthony Trollope and Mark Twain come to mind...

>> No.2024409

>In The Shade Of Spring Leaves: The Life Of Higuchi Ichiyo

A critical bio on Higuchi Ichiyo, well known Japanese novelist from the late 19th century. It intersperses the biography with her diary entries and also includes nine of her short stories translated at the end.