Check out these biographies all available in Leeds Libraries and added 2013
The classics
Wilkie Collins by Peter Ackroyd
George Orwell English rebel by Robert Colls
The real Jane Austen: a life in small things by Paula Byrne
Marriage of inconvenience: John Ruskin and Euphemia Gray by Robert Brownell
Modern classics
C S Lewis a biography of friendship by Colin Duriez
Norman Mailer a double life by Michael Lennon
The lives of the novelists: a history of fiction in 294 lives by John Sutherland
Rhys Davies: a writer’s life by Meic Stephens
The poets
Walking wounded: the life and poetry of Vernon Scannell by Andrew Taylor
Mad girl’s love song: Sylvia Plath and life before Ted by Andrew Wilson
Popular authors
Maeve Binchy: the biography by Piers Dudgeon
Penelope Fitzgerald: a life by Hermione Lee
Georgette Heyer: biography of a bestseller by Jennifer Kloester
Levels of life by Julian Barnes
The bucket: memories of an inattentive childhood by Allan Ahlberg
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