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The Guardian: Top 10 Literary Biographies

From Shakespeare to Shelley, Edith Wharton to VS Naipaul … literature's greats have biographies to match.
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Henry James (Leon Edel)
Henry James
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Leon Edel
JAMES JOYCE by Richard Ellmann
JAMES JOYCE by Richard Ellmann
2
Edith Wharton: A Biography (R. W. B. Lewis)
Edith Wharton: A Biography
3
R. W. B. Lewis
The Life of Langston Hughes (Arnold Rampersad)
The Life of Langston Hughes
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Arnold Rampersad
Shelley: The Pursuit (Richard Holmes)
Shelley: The Pursuit
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Richard Holmes
Dickens (Peter Ackroyd)
Dickens
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Peter Ackroyd
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Stephen Greenblatt)
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
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Stephen Greenblatt
Tolstoy (N Wilson)
Tolstoy
8
N Wilson
The Imperfect Life of T S Eliot (Lyndall Gordon)
The Imperfect Life of T S Eliot
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Lyndall Gordon
The World Is What It Is (Patrick French)
The World Is What It Is
10
Patrick French
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