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Explore the fascinating lives and loves of the greatest novelists, poets, and playwrights. Lavishly illustrated with photographs and paintings of writers’ homes, studies, and personal artifacts--along with pages from original manuscripts, first editions, and their correspondence-- Introduced with a stunning portrait of each featured novelist, playwright, or poet, biographical entries trace the friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired each individual and influenced their work, revealing insights into the larger-than-life characters, plots, and evocative settings that they created. Each entry explains how the person’s writing developed during their lifetime and sets it in context, conveying a powerful sense of the place and the period of history in which they lived. Covering an eclectic range of authors from the Middle Ages to the present day,
About the author
James Naughtie is an award-winning radio host and broadcaster, James Naughtie began his career as a journalist before moving to radio in 1986. For over 20 years he co-hosted BBC Radio 4’s Today program, and he has chaired Radio 4’s monthly book-club since it began in 1997. James Naughtie has chaired both the Booker and Samuel Johnson judging panels and written a number of books including The Rivals: The Intimate Story of A Political Marriage; The Accidental American: Tony Blair And The Presidency; The Making Of Music; The New Elizabethans; and The Madness of July.
