Subject: Novelists, English 20th century Biography

Sub-Subjects

Books Under This Subject

Hard Times by Charles Dickens (10,175 copies)
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell (7,610 copies)
Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry (2,999 copies)
Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter (2,686 copies)
Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy… by Neil Gaiman (2,210 copies)
An Autobiography by Agatha Christie (1,819 copies)
Experience by Martin Amis (1,203 copies)
Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch by John Bayley (1,127 copies)
Virginia Woolf: A Biography by Quentin Bell (1,114 copies)
Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf (1,094 copies)
Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee (927 copies)
Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood (773 copies)
Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir by Hilary Mantel (699 copies)
A Sort of Life by Graham Greene (642 copies)
Ways of Escape by Graham Greene (590 copies)
Wodehouse: A Life by Robert McCrum (468 copies)
Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare (454 copies)
Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams by Nick Webb (417 copies)
The Tale of Beatrix Potter: A Biography by Margaret Lane (390 copies)
A Writer's Notebook by W. Somerset Maugham (384 copies)
A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters by Barbara Pym (384 copies)
Virginia Woolf by Nigel Nicolson (383 copies)
The Private World of Georgette Heyer by Jane Aiken Hodge (375 copies)
Sagittarius Rising by Cecil Lewis (369 copies)
Daphne du Maurier: The Secret Life of the Renowned… by Margaret Forster (363 copies)
Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography,… by Doris Lessing (351 copies)
Slide Rule by Nevil Shute (344 copies)
Particularly Cats by Doris Lessing (326 copies)
Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams by M.J. Simpson (318 copies)
Two Under the Indian Sun by Jon Godden (317 copies)
Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America… by Jenny Diski (316 copies)
The Life of Graham Greene, Volume I: 1904-1939 by Norman Sherry (311 copies)
Testament of Friendship by Vera Brittain (307 copies)
The Letters of Evelyn Waugh by Evelyn Waugh (296 copies)
The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad (290 copies)
Far Away and Long Ago by W. H. Hudson (282 copies)
The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh by Evelyn Waugh (264 copies)
Patrick O'Brian : A Life Revealed by Dean King (258 copies)
Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography by Jean Rhys (252 copies)
Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire by John Bayley (248 copies)
Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul by Barbara Reynolds (244 copies)
Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson by Jonathan Coe (243 copies)
Iris Murdoch: A Life by Peter J. Conradi (243 copies)
Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived by Penelope Lively (239 copies)
The Sport of Queens: The Autobiography of Dick Francis by Dick Francis (232 copies)
Greene on Capri by Shirley Hazzard (232 copies)
Memoirs by Kingsley Amis (229 copies)
A House Unlocked by Penelope Lively (222 copies)
Maiden Voyage by Denton Welch (221 copies)
A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep by Rumer Godden (208 copies)
P.G. Wodehouse: A Biography by Frances Donaldson (207 copies)
Ian Fleming by Andrew Lycett (207 copies)
A Very Close Conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf by Jane Dunn (201 copies)
Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer by Daphne du Maurier (199 copies)
Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life by Lyndall Gordon (196 copies)
Sleep Has His House (Peter Owen Modern Classic) by Anna Kavan (196 copies)
E. M. Forster: A Life by P. N. Furbank (189 copies)
Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her… by Louise A. DeSalvo (189 copies)
The Invisible Writing: The Second Volume of an… by Arthur Koestler (187 copies)
The Life of Graham Greene, Volume II: 1939-1955 by Norman Sherry (184 copies)
Rebecca West: A Life by Victoria Glendinning (179 copies)
Nancy Mitford by Harold Acton (169 copies)
Blue Remembered Hills by Rosemary Sutcliff (169 copies)
Arrow in the Blue: The First Volume of an Autobiography,… by Arthur Koestler (168 copies)
The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie by Charles Osborne (164 copies)
Mary Renault: A Biography by David Sweetman (161 copies)
Pack My Bag: A Self-Portrait by Henry Green (158 copies)
Will This Do? by Auberon Waugh (148 copies)
The Life of Graham Greene, Volume III: 1956-1991 by Norman Sherry (148 copies)
Recollections of Virginia Woolf by Joan Russell Noble (147 copies)
Stand Before Your God: An American Schoolboy in England by Paul Watkins (147 copies)
A Lot to Ask: A Life of Barbara Pym by Hazel Holt (144 copies)
A House with Four Rooms by Rumer Godden (144 copies)
Three Houses by Angela Thirkell (140 copies)
Experiment in Autobiography: Discoveries and Conclusions of… by H. G. Wells (140 copies)
Dangerous Muse: The Life of Lady Caroline Blackwood by Nancy Schoenberger (138 copies)
Elizabeth Bowen by Victoria Glendinning (135 copies)
The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories by Daphne du Maurier (132 copies)
Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years, 1903-1939 by Martin Stannard (131 copies)
An Egyptian Journal by William Golding (120 copies)
A marriage of true minds: An intimate portrait of Leonard… by George Spater (117 copies)
The Joy of the Snow by Elizabeth Goudge (113 copies)
Graham Greene: The Enemy Within by Michael Shelden (111 copies)
Virginia Woolf and Her World by John Lehmann (103 copies)
To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell by Anthony Powell (102 copies)
The Life of Kingsley Amis by Zachary Leader (101 copies)
H.G. Wells: Aspects of a Life by Anthony West (100 copies)
Iris Murdoch as I Knew Her by A. N. Wilson (100 copies)
Granite and Rainbow by Mitchell Leaska (100 copies)
Isherwood: A Life Revealed by Peter Parker (99 copies)
Virginia Woolf A to Z by Mark Hussey (97 copies)
Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days by Jared Cade (94 copies)
Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life by Anne Chisholm (89 copies)
Patrick O'Brian: The Making of the Novelist by Nikolai Tolstoy (89 copies)
Ivy: The Life of I. Compton-Burnett by Hilary Spurling (87 copies)
Virginia Woolf by Mary Ann Caws (87 copies)
The Swan in the Evening: Fragments of an Inner Life by Rosamond Lehmann (86 copies)
Travels with Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf (85 copies)
Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf by Phyllis Rose (83 copies)
E. M. Forster: A Biography by Nicola Beauman (83 copies)
Lights on at Signpost by George MacDonald Fraser (79 copies)
Anthony Powell: A Life by Michael Barber (78 copies)
H.G.: The History of Mr Wells by Michael Foot (78 copies)
E.M. Forster by Francis Henry King (76 copies)
Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives : A Biography by Frederick Robert Karl (74 copies)
Infants of the Spring: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell by Anthony Powell (74 copies)
The Last Englishman: The Life of J. L. Carr by Byron Rogers (74 copies)
Jean Rhys by Carole Angier (74 copies)
H. G. Wells: A Biography by Norman MacKenzie (71 copies)
Faces in My Time: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell by Anthony Powell (67 copies)
Messengers of Day: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell by Anthony Powell (65 copies)
The Invisible Man: The Life and Liberties of H.G. Wells by Michael Coren (65 copies)
Journey to Kars by Philip Glazebrook (64 copies)
The Quest for Graham Greene by W. J. West (64 copies)
Home Life by Alice Thomas Ellis (63 copies)
Paul Scott: A Life of the Author of the Raj Quartet by Hilary Spurling (62 copies)
Jeffrey Archer: Stranger Than Fiction by Michael Crick (61 copies)
Rebecca West: A Life by Carl Rollyson (61 copies)
The Strangers Are All Gone: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell by Anthony Powell (58 copies)
First Childhood by Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, Baron Berners (57 copies)
Lord Berners: The Last Eccentric by Mark Amory (57 copies)
The Day Gone By by Richard Adams (57 copies)
Particularly Cats ... And Rufus by Doris Lessing (55 copies)
The Twinkling of an Eye: My Life as an Englishman by Brian W. Aldiss (54 copies)
The Secret Orchard of Roger Ackerley by Diana Petre (53 copies)
The Heart to Artemis: A Writer's Memoirs by Bryher (53 copies)
Ford Madox Ford by Alan Judd (53 copies)
The Life of E. F. Benson by Brian Masters (52 copies)
Too Late to Turn Back by Barbara Greene (51 copies)
H.G. Wells in Love: Postscript to an Experiment in… by H. G. Wells (51 copies)
Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green by Jeremy Treglown (51 copies)
A Distant Prospect by Lord Berners (49 copies)
As Once in May by Antonia White (48 copies)
John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds by Eileen Warburton (48 copies)
The Anti-Egotist: Kingsley Amis, Man of Letters by Paul Fussell (47 copies)
A Life Drawing: Autobiography of Shirley Hughes by Shirley Hughes (47 copies)
Art and Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf by Panthea Reid (47 copies)
H. G. Wells and Rebecca West by Gordon Norton Ray (46 copies)
Joseph Conrad: A Critical Biography by Jocelyn Baines (43 copies)
The Attempted Rescue by Robert Aickman (42 copies)
The Third Woman by William Cash (42 copies)
The World of Agatha Christie: The Facts and Fiction Behind… by Martin Fido (40 copies)
Mrs. Humphry Ward: Eminent Victorian, Pre-eminent Edwardian by John Sutherland (39 copies)
Tales of Innocence and Experience: An Exploration by Eva Figes (38 copies)
Master of Villainy: A Biography of Sax Rohmer by Cay Van Ash (35 copies)
In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography by Nina Bawden (34 copies)
Girlitude: A Portrait of the 50s and 60s by Emma Tennant (32 copies)
Escape from the Shadows by Robin Maugham (32 copies)
Conrad and His World by Norman Sherry (31 copies)
Shadow Lovers: The Last Affairs Of H. G. Wells by Andrea Lynn (31 copies)
The Measure of Life: Virginia Woolf's Last Years by Herbert Marder (30 copies)
Ronald Firbank; a biography by Miriam J. Benkovitz (29 copies)
The days of Mars;: A memoir, 1940-1946, by Bryher (29 copies)
Virginia Woolf for Beginners by Aaron Rosenblatt (27 copies)
Private World of Daphne Du Maurier by Martyn Shallcross (27 copies)
Virginia Woolf and Her Works by Jean Guiguet (26 copies)
The Captain: The Life and Times of Simon Raven by Michael Barber (24 copies)
Long Before Forty by C. S. Forester (24 copies)
The Magic of My Youth by Arthur Calder-Marshall (24 copies)
Prancing Novelist: In Praise of Ronald Firbank by Brigid Brophy (24 copies)
Joseph Conrad by Leo Gurko (23 copies)
Little Eden: A Child at War by Eva Figes (21 copies)
Daphne du Maurier, Haunted Heiress (Personal Takes) by Nina Auerbach (21 copies)
Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville… by Susan J. Leonardi (21 copies)
Literary Agents: The Novelist As Spy by Anthony Masters (20 copies)
A Dog's Life by Paul Bailey (20 copies)
Neil Gaiman (The Library of Graphic Novelists) by Steven P. Olson (19 copies)
In Search of a Beginning: My Life with Graham Greene by Yvonne Cloetta (19 copies)
The Sea Years of Joseph Conrad by Jerry Allen (19 copies)
Deadlier than the male: Why are respectable English women… by Jessica Mann (18 copies)
Stranger and Brother: A Portrait of C. P. Snow by Philip Snow (18 copies)
William Gerhardie: A Biography by Dido Davies (18 copies)
The Masks of Mary Renault: A Literary Biography by Caroline Zilboorg (17 copies)
Memoirs of a Private Man by Winston Graham (16 copies)
E.M.Forster: The Growth of the Novelist, 1879-1914 v. 1: A… by P. N. Furbank (16 copies)
Life is a four-letter word by Nicholas Monsarrat (15 copies)
Koestler by Iain Hamilton (15 copies)
Conrad the Novelist by Albert J. Guérard (14 copies)
The Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett. by Elizabeth Sprigge (14 copies)
Ivy Compton-Burnett: A Memoir by Cicely Greig (14 copies)
Facts and Fictions by Ann Bridge (14 copies)
Joseph Conrad by Roger Tennant (13 copies)
Dorothy Richardson: A Biography by Gloria G. Fromm (13 copies)
Seeking Catherine Cookson's "Da" by Kathleen Jones (12 copies)
Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery… by Richard Martin (12 copies)
Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography by Anne M. Wyatt-Brown (10 copies)
EM Forster A Life. VOLUME TWO : POLYCRATE'S RING 1914 -… by P. N. Furbank (10 copies)
Roman Fountain by Hugh Walpole (9 copies)
Virginia Woolf by Carl Woodring (8 copies)
Africa of the heart : a personal journey by Joseph Hone (8 copies)
Figures in the Foreground by Frank Swinnerton (7 copies)
Elusion Aforethought: The Life and Writing of Anthony… by Malcolm J. Turnbull (7 copies)
Joseph Conrad by J. I. M. Stewart (7 copies)
Conrad's Eastern world by Norman Sherry (6 copies)
Conrad and the Reporters by Christopher Morley (5 copies)
Twentieth Century Romance And Gothic Writers by James Vinson (5 copies)
Away to the woods by Lena Kennedy (3 copies)
Graham Greene by John Atkins (3 copies)
John Galsworthy by David Holloway (2 copies)
Footslogger An Autobiography by Graham Seton Hutchison (2 copies)
Dark horses : an experience of literary journalism by Karl Miller (2 copies)
English novel, Conrad to Woolf by Frank Northen Magill (2 copies)
The Catherine Cookson Companion by Cliff Goodwin (2 copies)
My writing life by Neil Bell (2 copies)
The Life and Thought of H. G. Wells by J. Kagarlitski (2 copies)
Under Polish eyes by J. H. Retinger (1 copies)
John Galsworthy : a reassessment by Alec Fréchet (1 copies)