Subject: Authors, English › Biography

Sub-subjects

Books under this subject

• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (2,357 copies)
• Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby (2,351 copies)
• Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by C. S. Lewis (2,228 copies)
• The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell (1,667 copies)
• Confessions of an English Opium Eater and Other Writings by Thomas De Quincey (1,410 copies)
• Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves (1,346 copies)
• Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry (1,271 copies)
• Going Solo by Roald Dahl (1,169 copies)
• J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter (1,086 copies)
• Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee (949 copies)
• Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin (746 copies)
• Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain (623 copies)
• Two Lives by Vikram Seth (597 copies)
• The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe (588 copies)
• Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold… by Nigel Nicolson (523 copies)
• Virginia Woolf: A Biography by Quentin Bell (508 copies)
• Agatha Christie: An Autobiography by Agatha Christie (494 copies)
• Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf (464 copies)
• A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf (404 copies)
• As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee (381 copies)
• The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley (378 copies)
• J. R. R. Tolkien: Architect of Middle Earth by Daniel Grotta (346 copies)
• Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes (312 copies)
• The Inklings by Humphrey Carpenter (310 copies)
• Grace abounding to the chief of sinners. by John Bunyan (310 copies)
• Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages by Phyllis Rose (304 copies)
• Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin (279 copies)
• C. S. Lewis' Letters to Children (C.S. Lewis Classics) by C. S. Lewis (277 copies)
• Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood (273 copies)
• Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments by Edmund Gosse (270 copies)
• The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis by Alan Jacobs (269 copies)
• Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 by Doris Lessing (267 copies)
• Memoirs of a Medieval Woman by Louise Collis (266 copies)
• The Summing Up by W. Somerset Maugham (256 copies)
• C. S. Lewis: A Biography by A. N. Wilson (239 copies)
• C.S. Lewis Through the Shadowlands by Brian Sibley (237 copies)
• Come, Tell Me How You Live by Agatha Christie (230 copies)
• The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An Autobiography by Aleister Crowley (225 copies)
• Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth by John Garth (222 copies)
• Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr.… by Adam Sisman (210 copies)
• Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning (206 copies)
• The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography by A. J. A. Symons (206 copies)
• The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English by Ian Ousby (198 copies)
• Beatrix Potter: The Extraordinary Life of a Victorian… by Linda Lear (190 copies)
• Little Wilson and Big God by Anthony Burgess (189 copies)
• When the Going Was Good by Evelyn Waugh (188 copies)
• Clinging to the Wreckage by John Mortimer (182 copies)
• Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley by Lawrence Sutin (177 copies)
• Samuel Johnson by W. Jackson Bate (168 copies)
• The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton by G. K. Chesterton (166 copies)

( see all books )