A fresh and original account of the life and work of ground-breaking American modernist writer William Faulkner, examining how he strained to balance the pressures of his personal life to pursue his artistic vision with single-minded determination.

A vivid, absorbing new biography of Dmitry Shostakovich.

A new biography of Langston Hughes, taking in his extraordinary life and canonical works.

An insightful and compelling biography of celebrated French storyteller Guy de Maupassant.

A critical biography of German novelist, playwright and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

An insightful biography of Leo Tolstoy, one of the greatest novelists of all time.