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A collection of six essays blends memoir and biography, exploring the author's life and passion for uncovering historical mysteries, featuring diverse figures such as a Buddhist hermit and a Black Power martyr.

A moving and penetrating memoir of a life in biography from the Pulitzer Prize winner and “gifted storyteller” (Judith Thurman, The New Yorker).Megan Marshall’s innovative books, including&nbsp;The Peabody Sisters&nbsp;and the Pulitzer Prize–winning&nbsp;Margaret Fuller, are treasured works of American biography.&nbsp;In the richly absorbing essays of&nbsp;After Lives, Marshall turns her narrative gift to her own&nbsp;art,&nbsp;life,&nbsp;and the people in it.In each of six essays, Marshall reinvents the personal essay form, as a portal to the past and its lessons for living into the future. The book’s brilliant, assured interplay between memoir and biography places surprising characters on the page, including the twelfth-century Buddhist hermit&nbsp;Kamo no Chomei, a reassuring spiritual presence for Marshall during several otherwise deracinating months in Kyoto.&nbsp;In her stunning coming-of-age tale, “Free for a While,”&nbsp;set in 1970s California, Marshall interweaves the story of her adolescence with that of Black Power martyr Jonathan Jackson, the author’s AP history classmate, gunned down at seventeen in a failed attempt to free his famed older brother George from prison in the case that put Angela Davis on the FBI’s Most Wanted list.&nbsp;Here too is the author’s passion for the biographical chase, and for the mysteries at its heart.&nbsp;She tells the astonishing story of viewing&nbsp;the disinterred remains of her one-time subject Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, wife of Nathaniel, and their daughter Una,&nbsp;the truths of whose&nbsp;early death Marshall works to reveal.&nbsp;Throughout these finely wrought essays, Marshall,&nbsp;“[at] the front rank of American biographers” (Dwight Garner,&nbsp;New York Times),&nbsp;makes palpable her driving impulse to “learn what I could from others: how to live, how not to live, what it means to live.”&nbsp;

Marshall Megan: After Lives

After Lives

On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart

The Woman Behind the Marquis

Sade's Wife

A chronological account of twenty-one women who made French history, from the fifth to the twenty-first century.

A History of France in 21 Women

Thomas Mann and the Making of "The Magic Mountain"

The Master of Contradictions

The essential companion to Toni Morrison's work, written by Namwali Serpell, 'one of the most innovative and intelligent writers today' (Financial Times)A giant in American letters, and one of our most beloved writers, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison has inspired generations. But her artistic genius is often overshadowed by her monumental public persona, perhaps because, as Serpell puts it, 'she is our only truly canonical black, female writer-and her work is complex.' In On Morrison, Serpell brings her unique experience as both an award-winning writer and a professor of literature at Harvard University, to illuminate Morrison's masterful experiments with literary form. This is Morrison as you've never encountered her before, a journey through her oeuvre-her fiction, poetry, dramatic works, and criticism-with contextual guidance, archival discoveries, and original close readings. At once accessible and uncompromisingly rigorous, On Morrison is a primer not only on how to read one of the most significant black American authors of all time, but also on how to read great works of literature. Stylish, edifying, and electrifying in its intelligence, this dialogue on the page between two artist-readers is literary criticism at its very best. 'Stunning reconsiderations of Morrison...incisive, tender, and also honest and unsparing' HANIF ABDURRAQIB, author of A Little Devil in America

On Morrison

The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry

Western Star

Why I Write

An illuminating reflection on the creative process from acclaimed fiction writer, essayist, and translator Lydia Davis &nbsp; When asked why she writes, Lydia Davis confesses that the question makes her uncomfortable.&nbsp;Maybe she would rather not know. Instead, Davis considers how she writes her stories, how other writers write, and what insights the how might provide into the why. &nbsp; In this free-ranging exploration, Davis discovers that one reason she writes is for pleasure: the pleasure of encountering something that demands to be treated in language, of handling and manipulating the language into the form it ought to take, and, finally, of seeing a story exist where it didn’t exist before. As she observes the processes of some of the authors who interest her the most, she finds that there seem to be as many reasons to write as there are writers: to relive an experience, to share an experience, to articulate something one has not quite comprehended. &nbsp; Reflecting on an eclectic mix of thinkers, including James Baldwin, Kate Briggs, Walter Raleigh, Christina Sharpe, Knut Hamsun, Grace Paley, Josep Pla, John Ashbery, and John Clare, Davis undertakes a clear-eyed, patient inquiry into the manifold reasons we choose to put pen to paper and begin something new.

Into the Weeds

At the Inns of Court, the intellectual, literary, and social heart of early 17th century London, many pivotal friendships were forged: few closer than that of Bulstrode Whitelocke and Edward (Ned) Hyde. Both young men were lively characters, industrious, well-connected, principled and optimistic. They dreamed of reforming the government of Charles I, a young court with age-old problems, by restoring the traditional harmony of Crown and Parliament. This is the story of how their hopes climbed, overreached, and fell into an abyss of relentless civil war. This highly original, vivid and engaging book recreates the atmosphere, drama, players and ideas of what is arguably England's (and Britain's) most crucial and traumatic formative period. Through the stories of his two protagonists, Minoo Dinshaw shows how subtle religious and political differences, careful personal judgments, and mere happenstance combined to place these two friends, most reluctantly, on opposite sides in the English Civil Wars. They would both survive, unlike many thousands of others, into old age; both would become influential historians, shaping how we still understand the conflicts of their age. But their friendship, like the once hopeful country in which it had first flourished, would be forever changed: permanently marred by what both men believed to be senseless and unnecessary civil strife.

Choosing Sides in the English Civil War

Friends in Youth

From The Murder of Roger Ackroyd to Magpie Murders, and related diversions including cryptic crosswords and Cain's Jawbone, The Murder Gameexamines the games authors played with their readers and the importance of puzzles in Golden Age whodunits.

Play, Puzzles and the Golden Age

The Murder Game

A Byron biography like no other - published to mark the bicentennial of his death - it tells the remarkable life story of the celebrated Romantic poet through ten of his best, most resonant letters. Using Byron's correspondence, Stauffer relates a vivid and engaging story of creativity, fame, sexual transgression and scandal.

A Byron biography like no other – published to mark the bicentennial of his death – it tells the remarkable life story of the celebrated Romantic poet through ten of his best, most resonant letters. Using Byron's correspondence, Stauffer relates a vivid and engaging story of creativity, fame, sexual transgression and scandal.

Byron: A Life in Ten Letters

The first memoir from Geoff Dyer, author of Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It, recollecting his childhood and coming of age in postwar Britain

A Memoir

Homework

Winner of the Hatchards &amp; Biographers' Club First Biography Prize'With this meticulously researched biography, we don't so much move closer as move in with Gunn and shadow him through his life . . . Gunn's life is chronicled beautifully here.' Andrew McMillan, Literary Review'A consummately researched, intelligent and sympathetic biography - and, which matters most, he's a very good reader of the poems.' Sam Leith, Guardian'A fine, frank biography.' Peter Conrad, Observer'Admirably unsentimental . . . allowing all Gunn's complexities and contradictions to emerge unvarnished . . . the greatness of his poetry endures.' Daily Telegraph'The first biography of Thom Gunn, and likely the definitive one . . . Nott's book is one of the best versions of a gay relationship conducted over this half century.' Colm Toibin'Nott has set out here to produce a work sturdy enough to support decades of future commentary on Gunn. He's succeeded - this book is everything you ever wanted to know about Thom Gunn but had not even thought about asking.' New York Times Book ReviewThe eagerly awaited, no-holds-barred biography of the great poet: an intellectual maverick, sexual rebel and icon of queer literature. Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life is a landmark study of one of England's - and America's - most innovative and revolutionary poets. Michael Nott chronicles, for the first time, Gunn's largely undocumented life: his childhood in Kent and London, his mother's suicide, and his mind-opening education at Cambridge, where he read Shakespeare and John Donne, wrote his first book, Fighting Terms, and met the man who was to become his life partner - Mike Kitay. In his mid-twenties, Gunn followed Kitay to America and became one of the great poet-documenters of San Francisco's queer culture, capturing both the hippie mentality of the time and his own visceral experience of sex, drugs, and loss. Through the eighties and beyond, Gunn found himself in the midst of the AIDS crisis, recording its catastrophic impact in The Man with Night Sweats, poems that provide, too, its most poignant epitaph. Gunn was not a confessional poet, but inseparable from his rigorous formal poetry was a ravenous embracing of life and an acute awareness of death. Michael Nott, co-editor of The Letters of Thom Gunn, draws on letters, diaries, notebooks, interviews, and Gunn's poetry to bring us a vivid portrait of a great literary mind, sexual rebel and queer icon.

Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life

The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark

Like a Cat Loves a Bird

After Lives

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