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Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot

10 best books like Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot (Carole Seymour-Jones): Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol), One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner, E. M. Forster: A Life, Women of the Left Bank, Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World, Iris Murdoch: A Life, The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers, The Rise of Life on Earth, Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography, Whittaker Chambers: A Biography

Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol)
AuthorBreanne Fahs
ISBN1558618481
Too drastic, too crazy, too "out there," too early, too late, too damaged, too much—Valerie Solanas has been dismissed but never forgotten. She has become, unwittingly, a figurehead for women's unexpressed rage, and stands at the center of many worlds. She inhabited Andy Warhol's Factory scene,...
One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner
AuthorJay Parini
ISBN0060935553
“Nothing less than spellbinding . . . It’s an eye-opener. Anecdotal without being tawdry, analytical without being academic, it captures the essence of Faulkner’s life with the narrative drive of a novel.” — Houston Chronicle

“A splendid life of William Faulkner . . . Not...
E. M. Forster: A Life
AuthorP.N. Furbank
ISBN0156286513
I’ve owned this two-in-one volume for years and finally opened it after Jasmine's wonderful essay-review of Maurice had me thinking of Forster’s probable loneliness. Reading this made me feel better about that aspect of his life: yes, there was much (mostly physical) loneliness in his life,...
Women of the Left Bank
AuthorShari Benstock
ISBN0292790406
Now available in a durable paperback edition, Shari Benstock's critically acclaimed, best-selling Women of the Left Bank is a fascinating exploration of the lives and works of some two dozen American, English, and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the century's...
Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World
AuthorClaudia Roth Pierpont
ISBN0679751130
With a masterful ability to connect their social contexts to well-chosen and telling details of their personal lives, Claudia Roth Pierpont gives us portraits of twelve amazingly diverse and influential literary women of the twentieth century, women who remade themselves and the world through...
Iris Murdoch: A Life
AuthorPeter J. Conradi
ISBN0393048756
In "Iris Murdoch," Peter Conradi assesses the remarkable intellectual and cultural legacy of the celebrated philosopher and beloved novelist. Depicting her personal life in extraordinary detail -- her student days at Oxford, her Communist activities, her early affairs, and her enduring marriage...
The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers
AuthorVirginia Spencer Carr
ISBN0820325228
The Lonely Hunter is widely accepted as the standard biography of Carson McCullers. Author of such landmarks of modern American fiction as Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers was the enfant terrible of the literary world of the 1940s and 1950s. Gifted but tormented,...
The Rise of Life on Earth
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
ISBN0811212130
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the most notable books of 1991, Joyce Carol Oates's The Rise of Life on Earth is a memorable portrait of one of the "insulted and injured" of American society. Set in the underside of working-class Detroit of the '60s and '70s, this short, lyric novel sketches...
Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography
AuthorDeirdre Bair
ISBN0671741802
This definitive biography is based on five years of interviews with de Beauvoir, and is written with her full cooperation. Bair penetrates the mystique of this brilliant and often paradoxical woman, who has been called one of the great minds of the 20th century, and surely, one of the most famously unconventional...
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography
AuthorSam Tanenhaus
ISBN0375751459
Whittaker Chambers is the first biography of this complex and enigmatic figure. Drawing on dozens of interviews and on materials from forty archives in the United States and abroad--including still-classified KGB dossiers--Tanenhaus traces the remarkable journey that led Chambers from a sleepy...
The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams
AuthorDonald Spoto
ISBN0306808056
This is the first complete, critical biography of Tennessee Williams (1911–1983), one of America's finest playwrights and the author of (among many important works) The Glass Menagerie, Summer and Smoke, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Suddenly Last Summer, and The Night of the...
Eudora Welty
AuthorSuzanne Marrs
ISBN0151009147
I heard mediocre things about this when it came out so I didn't bother, but I found it on a sale table so picked it up and found out for myself that it is mediocre.

It's useful for facts facts facts, and so it will become yet another one of those bios I flip through the index to find out what I want to find...
Anton Chekhov
AuthorDonald Rayfield
ISBN0810117959
Anton Chekhov's life was short, intense, and dominated by battles, both with his dependents and with the tuberculosis that killed him at age forty-four. The traditional image of Chekhov is that of the restrained artist torn between medicine and literature. But Donald Rayfield's biography reveals...
Muriel Spark: The Biography
AuthorMartin Stannard
Recently I have re-discovered Muriel Spark’s work and have enjoyed becoming re-acquainted with her novels. Realising I knew very little about her life, I decided to read her biography and, having done so, feel it was very well researched and covered both her work, and life, well.

Muriel...
Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew
AuthorJohn Felstiner
ISBN0300089228
Paul Celan, Europe's most compelling postwar poet, was a German-speaking, East European Jew. His writing exposes and illumines the wounds that Nazi destructiveness left on language. John Felstiner's sensitive and accessible book is the first critical biography of Celan in any language. It offers...
Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey and His Dream of Mother Africa
AuthorColin Grant
ISBN0195367944
New in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of contradictions: a self-educated, poetry-writing aesthete and unabashed propagandist, an admirer...
Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories
AuthorJenny Uglow
ISBN0374147515
Winner of the Portico Prize
Shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography of the Year High-spirited, witty and passionate, Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some of the most enduring novels of the Victorian age, including Mary Barton, North and South and Wives and Daughters. This biography traces Elizabeth's...
Leonard Woolf: A Biography
AuthorVictoria Glendinning
ISBN0743246535
Award-winning biographer Victoria Glendinning draws on her deep knowledge of the twentieth century literary scene, and on her meticulous research into previously untapped sources, to write the first full biography of the extraordinary man who was the "dark star" at the center of the Bloomsbury...
Tove Jansson: sanat, kuvat, elämä
AuthorBoel Westin
"Ehkä meidän Tovestamme tulee vielä kerran suuri taiteilija. Todella suuri!" Näin kirjoitti nuori sotilas Viktor Jansson rintamalta rakastetulleen Signelle, kun Suomessa riehui sisällissota. Viktor Janssonin haave toteutui. Tovesta tuli todella suuri taiteilija, joka kuvillaan ja...
The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction
AuthorJerrold E. Hogle
ISBN0521794668
Fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying genre from the 1760s to the end of the twentieth century. Essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theater, Romantic...
The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories
AuthorNella Larsen
ISBN0385721005
A light-skinned beauty who spends years passing for white finds herself dangerously drawn to an old friend's Harlem neighborhood. A restless young mulatto tries desperately to find a comfortable place in a world in which she sees herself as a perpetual outsider. A mother's confrontation with tragedy...
My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson
AuthorAlfred Habegger
ISBN0812966015
Emily Dickinson, probably the most loved and certainly the greatest of American poets, continues to be seen as the most elusive. One reason she has become a timeless icon of mystery for many readers is that her developmental phases have not been clarified. In this exhaustively researched biography,...
Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson
AuthorJudy Oppenheimer
ISBN0449904059
Advice to women, 1933:

Keep young and beautiful
It's your duty to be beautiful
Keep young and beautiful
If you want to be loved, dah-dah-dah-dah

Don't fail to do your stuff
With a little powder and a puff
Keep young and beautiful
If you want to be loved

If...
Original Bliss
AuthorA.L. Kennedy
ISBN0375702784
Emotionally numb, crippled with insomnia, and caught in a frightening, abusive marriage, Helen Brindle believes that God has recently left her. She spends her days performing banal domestic chores in front of a blaring television. On the BBC one day she watches a self-help guru expound on, among other...
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