A skillful biography focusing on D. H. Lawrence’s developing consciousness during his childhood and youth in the English Midlands, his university days, his elopement with Frieda, and his departure fro
A biography of the great America poet draws upon a broad range of sources and quotes liberally from Whitman's poetry to discuss his many jobs, his sexual fluidity, his solitariness, and his work
Philip Callow’s splendidly readable biography of Robert Louis Stevenson recounts the life of Scotland’s finest writer of English prose and the author of such classics as Treasure Island and Dr. Jekyll
In November 1919 D. H. Lawrence arrived in Venice, thirty-four years old, a big name with a banned book behind him, scraping by on very little but with a zest for life undiminished by shaky health. He
More searchingly than any earlier biographer, Philip Callow explores the development of Van Gogh's genius and his emergence as an artist after early struggles to find a vocation, first in the world of
