BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY, INCLUDING DIARIES, LETTERS, AND SOME CRITICAL WORKS REGARDING WRITERS’ OEUVRES      
       
SUBJECT TITLE AUTHOR ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTORS
       
Henry Adams      
  The Education of Henry Adams Henry Adams  
George Ade      
  George Ade: Warm-Hearted Satirist Fred C. Kelly  
Horatio Alger      
  The Lost Life of Horatio Alger, Jr. Gary Scharnhorst  
American Eccentrics [140 short biographies]      
  American Eccentrics Carl Sifakis  
A.R. Ammons      
  This Is Just Place: The Life and Work of A.R. Ammons [in Epic LXII.3, 2004]   Gilbert, Roger (e); Ammons, Phyllis (s); Rawlings III, Hunter R. (s); Wilson, Edwin G. (s)
Margaret Anderson      
  Four Lives in Paris Hugh Ford  
       
  The Fiery Fountains Margaret Anderson  
Newton Arvin      
  The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal Barry Werth  
John Aubrey      
  John Aubrey and His Friends Anthony Powell  
W.H. Auden      
  The Table Talk of W.H. Auden Alan Ansen Jenkins, Nicholas (e); Howard, Richard (s)
       
  Auden in Love Dorothy J. Farnan  
       
  Early Auden Edward Mendelson  
       
  W.H. Auden: A Biography Humphrey Carpenter  
Mikhail Bakhtin      
  Mikhail Bakhtin Katerina Clark Holquist, Michael (a)
Balthus      
  Vanished Splendors: A Memoir Balthus Vircondelet, Alain (e); Ivry, Benjamin (t)
       
  Balthus: A Biography Nicholas Fox Weber  
Rupert Barnaby      
  Both: A Portrait in Two Parts [on Dwight Ripley and Rupert Barnaby] Douglas Crase  
Djuna Barnes      
  Djuna: The Life and Times of Djuna Barnes Nicholas Field  
Natalie Barney      
  The Amazon of Letters George Wickes  
P.T. Barnum      
  Struggles and Triumphs, or the Life of P.T. Barnum P.T. Barnum  
Sylvia Beach      
  Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation Noel Riley Fitch  
William Beckford      
  Beckford: A Biography Guy Chapman  
       
  William Beckford: Composing for Mozart Timothy Mowl  
Thomas Lovell Beddoes      
  Thomas Lovell Beddoes: Eccentric and Poet Royall H. Snow  
Ted Berrigan      
  Ted: A Personal Memoir of Ted Berrigan Ron Padgett  
Elizabeth Bishop      
  One Art: Elizabeth Bishop: Letters Elizabeth Bishop Giroux, Robert (e)
       
  Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art   Hall, Donald (e); Schwartz, Lloyd (e); Estess, Sibyl P. (e); Bloom, Harold (s)
William Blake      
  Blake’s Apocalypse: A Study in Poetic Argument Harold Bloom  
       
  William Blake: A New Kind of Man Michael Davis  
Bill Blass      
  Bare Blass Bill Blass Horyn, Cathy (e)
Petrus Borel      
  Petrus Borel: The Lycanthrope, His Life and Times Enid Starkie  
George Borrow      
  In the Steps of George Borrow Eileen Bigland  
James Boswell      
  Boswell’s London Journal, 1762-1763 Samuel Boswell Pottle, Frederick A. (e); Morley, Christopher (s)
Elizabeth Bowen      
  Elizabeth Bowen: Pictures and Conversations Elizabeth Bowen  
Paul Bowles      
  An Invisible Spectator Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno  
Claude Bragdon      
  More Lives Than One Claude Bragdon  
Andre Breton      
  Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andre Breton Mark Polizzotti  
Romaine Brooks      
  Between Me and Life Meryle Secrest  
Samuel Butler      
  The Note Books of Samuel Butler Samuel Butler Festing Jones, Henry (e)
       
  Samuel Butler’s Notebooks Samuel Butler Keynes, Geoffrey (e); Hill, Brian (e)
Lord George Gordon Byron      
  The Selected Letters of Lord Byron Lord George Gordon Byron Barzun, Jacques (e)
Elias Canetti      
  The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a European Childhood Elias Canetti Neugroschel, Joachim (t)
Constantine Cavafy      
  Cavafy: A Critical Biography Robert Liddell  
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield      
  A Selection from the Letters of Lord Chestfield Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Welsh, Charles (e)
Francois Timoleon, abbe de Choisy      
  Transvestite Memoirs of the Abbe de Choisy Francois Timoleon, abbe de Choisy Scott, R.H.F. (t)
Jean Cocteau      
  Cock and Harlequin: Notes Concerning Music Jean Cocteau Myers, Rollo H. (t); Picasso, Pablo (i)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge      
  Coleridge: The Damaged Archangel Norman Fruman  
       
  Coleridge: Early Visions Richard Holmes  
       
  Memoirs and Letters of Sara Coleridge Sara Coleridge Coleridge, E. (e)
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette      
  Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette Judith Thurman  
Wilkie Collins      
  Wilkie Collins: A Biography Kenneth Robinson  
Ivy Compton-Burnett      
  I. Compton-Burnett Charles Burkhart  
       
  Ivy Compton-Burnett: A Memoir Cicely Greig  
       
  The Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett Elizabeth Sprigge  
       
  I. Compton-Burnett Pamela Hansford Johnson  
Cyril Connolly      
  Cyril Connolly: The Life and Times of England’s Most Controversial Literary Critic Clive Fisher  
       
  Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir David Pryce-Jones  
John Constable      
  Memoirs of the Life of John Constable C.R. Leslie, R.A.  
William Corbett      
  Furthering My Education: A Memoir William Corbett  
Corvo      
  The Quest for Corvo A.J.A. Symons  
       
  Corvo: Saint or Madman? A New Biography of Frederick William Rolfe Donald Weeks  
William Cowper      
  William Cowper: A Critical Life Maurice J. Quinlan  
Hart Crane      
  Voyager: A Life of Hart Crane John Unterecker  
  The Broken Tower Paul Mariani  
Richard Crashaw      
  A Study in Baroque Sensibility Austin Warren  
       
  Richard Crashaw and the Spanish Golden Age R.V. Young  
Harry Crosby      
  Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby Geoffrey Wolff  
Alphonse Daudet      
  In the Land of Pain Alphonse Daudet Barnes, Julian (e, t)
Richard Harding Davis      
  Richard Harding Davis: His Day Fairfax Downey  
Thomas de Quincey      
  Thomas de Quincey: His Life and Work Edward Sackville-West  
       
  The Opium Eater Grevel Lindop  
       
  Thomas de Quincey: A Biography Horace Ainsworth Eaton  
       
  Thomas de Quincey Judson S. Lyon  
Sergei Diaghilev      
  Diaghilev Richard Buckle  
Austin Dobson      
  Miscellanies Austin Dobson  
Mabel Dodge Luhan      
  Movers and Shakers: Volume III of Intimate Memories Mabel Dodge Luhan  
Daniel Drew      
  The Book of Daniel Drew: The Inside Story of the First Great Wall Street Speculator Bouck White  
Joseph Duveen      
  Duveen S.N. Behrman Steinberg, Saul (i)
T.S. Eliot      
  T.S. Eliot Peter Ackroyd  
       
  "Four Quartets’’ Rehearsed Raymond Preston  
John Evelyn      
  The Diary of John Evelyn [2 volumes] Rhys, Ernest (e)  
Edward FitzGerald      
  FitzGerald: Selected Works [and letters] Edward FitzGerald Richardson, Joanna (e)
Edward Fitzgerald      
  Letters of Edward Fitzgerald Edward Fitzgerald Cohen, J.M. (e)
F. Scott Fitzgerald      
  Crazy Sundays: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hollywood Aaron Latham  
Zelda Fitzgerald      
  Zelda Nancy Milford  
Janet Flanner      
  Paris Journal, 1944-1965 Janet Flanner Shawn, William (e)
       
  Genet Brenda Wineapple  
       
  Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939 Janet Flanner Drutman, Irving (e)
Gustave Flaubert      
  Letters Gustave Flaubert Rumbold, Richard (e); Cohen, J.M. (t)
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle      
  Fontenelle’s Art of Dialogue John W. Cosentini  
E.M. Forster      
  E.M. Forster Lionel Trilling  
Morton Fullerton      
  Mysteries of Paris: The Quest for Morton Fullerton Marion Mainwaring Howard, Richard (s)
David Gascoyne      
  Short Survey of Surrealism David Gascoyne  
Carlo Goldoni      
  Memoirs of Carlo Goldoni Carlo Goldoni Black, John (t); Drake, William A. (e)
Carlo Gozzi      
  Carlo Gozzi: Useless Memoirs Carlo Gozzi Symonds, John Addington (t); Horne, Philip (e)
Christian Dietrich Grabbe      
  Christian Dietrich Grabbe Roy C. Cowen  
Duncan Grant      
  Duncan Grant and the Bloomsbury Group Douglas Blair Turnbaugh  
Robert Graves      
  Robert Graves Martin Seymour-Smith  
       
  Robert Graves: Life on the Edge Miranda Seymour  
       
  Robert Graves: The Assault Heroic, 1895-1926 Richard Perceval Graves  
       
  Robert Graves: The Years with Laura Riding, 1926-1940 Richard Perceval Graves  
Henry Green      
  Pack My Bag Henry Green  
       
  Henry Green and the Writing of His Generation Michael North  
Hetty Green      
  The Witch of Wall Street Boyden Sparkes Moore, Samuel Taylor (a)
Julian Green      
  Memories of Happy Days Julian Green  
Geoffrey Grigson      
  Recollections: Mainly of Writers and Artists Geoffrey Grigson  
Peggy Guggenheim      
  Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addict Peggy Guggenheim Vidal, Gore (s); Barr Jr., Alfred H. (s)
Wilson Harris      
  Wilson Harris and the Caribbean Novel Michael Gilkes  
       
  The Bookstore in America: Borders [in The Review of Contemporary Fiction XVII.2, Summer 1997]   Adler, Joyce Sparer (e: Wilson Harris section)
Nathaniel Hawthorne      
  Hawthorne Henry James Jr.  
Martin Heidegger      
  Martin Heidegger George Steiner  
       
  Heidegger’s Philosophy: A Guide to His Basic Thought Magda King  
Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Heliogabalus      
  The Amazing Emperor Heliogabalus J. Stuart Hay  
Adolf Hitler      
  Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis Ian Kershaw  
Therese Humbert      
  La Grande Therese: The Greatest Scandal of the Century Hilary Spurling  
Christopher Isherwood      
  Diaries, Volume 1, 1939-1960 Christopher Isherwood Bucknell, Katherine (e)
Edmond Jabes      
  Lavish Absence Rosmarie Waldrop  
Max Jacob      
  Max Jacob and the Poetics of Cubism Gerald Kamber  
Henry James      
  Henry James: Autobiography Henry James Dupee, F.W. (e)
       
  Henry James Leon Edel  
       
  Henry James: Man and Author Pelham Edgar  
       
  Henry James Rebecca West  
       
  The Question of Henry James   Dupee, F.W. (e)
William James      
  William James: His Life and Thought Gerald E. Myers  
       
  The Letters of William James William James James, Henry (e)
William and Henry James      
  A Small Boy and Others Henry James  
King James I and VI      
  The Wisest Fool in Christendom William McElwee  
Sarah Orne Jewett      
  Sarah Orne Jewett Francis O. Matthiessen  
Samuel Johson      
  The Life of Samuel Johnson James Boswell  
Matthew Josephson      
  Life Among the Surrealists: A Memoir Matthew Josephson  
James Joyce      
  James Joyce Harry Levin  
       
  A Skeleton Key to Finnegan’s Wake Joseph Campbell Robinson, Henry Morton (a)
       
  James Joyce: New and Revised Edition Richard Ellmann  
       
  The Finnegan’s Wake Experience Roland McHugh  
       
  A Reader’s Guide to James Joyce William York Tindall  
Franz Kafka      
  The Nightmare of Reason Ernst Pawel  
David Kidd      
  Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China David Kidd  
Soren Kierkegaard      
  Kierkegaard: A Kind of Poet Louis Mackey  
Francis Kilvert      
  Journal of a Country Curate: Selections from the Diary of Francis Kilvert, 1870-79 Francis Kilvert Wait, Peter (e); Stephens, Tim (i)
Victor Klemperer      
  I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945 Victor Klemperer  
Madame de La Tour du Pin      
  Memoirs of Madame de La Tour du Pin Madame La Tour du Pin Harcourt, Felice (e)
Walter Savage Landor      
  Walter Savage Landor [Writers and Their Work126] G. Rostrevor Hamilton  
       
  Landor’s Poetry Robert Pinsky  
       
  Landor: Poetry and Prose [with essays by Ernest de Selincourt, Walter Raleigh, Oliver Elton]   Chambers, E.K. (s)
Ring Lardner      
  Ring Lardner Donald Elder  
       
  The Story of a Wonder Man: Being the Autobiography of Ring Lardner Ring Lardner Freeman, Margaret (i)
Edward Lear      
  Edward Lear: The Life of a Wanderer Vivien Noakes  
Vernon Lee      
  Vernon Lee: Violet Paget, 1856-1935 Peter Gunn  
Edwin Lefevre      
  The Making of a Stockbroker Edwin Lefevre  
John Lehmann      
  The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I John Lehmann  
Giacomo Leopardi      
  Leopardi: A Study in Solitude Iris Origo  
Ada Leverson      
  The Sphinx and Her Circle Violet Wyndham  
Claude Levi-Strauss      
  Claude Levi-Strauss Edmund Leach  
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg      
  Lichtenberg: A Doctrine of Scattered Occasions J.P. Stern  
Beatrice Lillie      
  Beatrice Lillie: The Funniest Woman in the World Bruce Laffey  
Mina Loy      
  Becoming Modern Carolyn Burke  
Ern Malley      
  The Ern Malley Affair Michael Heyward  
Osip Mandelstam      
  Mandelstam Clarence Brown  
Norman Manea      
  The Hooligan’s Return Norman Manea  
Sir Andrew Marbot      
  Marbot Wolfgang Hildesheimer  
Henri and Pierre Matisse      
  Matisse: Father and Son John Russell  
Vladimir Mayakovsky      
  Mayakovsky and His Circle Viktor Shklovsky  
Robert McAlmon      
  Being Geniuses Together, 1920-1930 Robert McAlmon Boyle, Kay (a, e)
Jacques-Louis Menetra      
  Journal of My Life Jacques-Louis Menetra Goldhammer, Arthur (t); Roche, Daniel (e)
Gian Carlo Menotti      
  Menotti John Gruen  
George Meredith      
  The Ordeal of George Meredith Lionel Stevenson  
Maurice Merleau-Ponty      
  Merleau-Ponty: Existentialist of the Social World Albert Rabil, Jr.  
James Merrill      
  Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson Alison Lurie  
       
  A Different Person: A Memoir James Merrill  
Nancy Mitford      
  The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family Mary S. Lovell  
       
  The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh Nancy Mitford Waugh, Evelyn (a); Mosley, Charlotte (e)
Adrienne Monnier      
  The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier Adrienne Monnier McDougall, Richard (e, t)
Eduard Morike      
  Eduard Morike: The Man and the Poet Margaret Mare  
Lady Ottoline Morrell      
  Memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell Lady Ottoline Morrell Gathorne-Hardy, Robert (e)
       
  Ottoline Sandra Jobson Darroch  
Robert Musil      
  Diaries: Robert Musil, 1899-1941 Robert Musil Payne, Philip (e, t); Mirsky, Mark (e)
John Bernard Myers      
  Tracking the Marvelous: A Life in the New York Art World John Bernard Myers  
Vladimir Nabokov      
  Speak, Memory Vladimir Nabokov  
Carrie Nation      
  Vessel of Wrath: The Life and Times of Carrie Nation Robert Lewis Taylor  
Reinhold Niebuhr      
  Reinhold Niebuhr Richard Fox  
Vaslav Nijinsky      
  Nijinsky Richard Buckle  
       
  The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky Vaslav Nijinsky Acocella, Joan (e)
Charles Nodier      
  Charles Nodier: Pilot of Romanticism A. Richard Oliver  
       
  Charles Nodier Hilda Nelson  
Harold Norse      
  Memoirs of a Bastard Angel: A Fifty-Year Literary and Erotic Odyssey Harold Norse Baldwin, James (s)
Frank O’Hara      
  In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O’Hara and American Art Russell Ferguson  
       
  City Poet Brad Gooch  
Margaret Oliphant      
  The Equivocal Virtue: Mrs. Oliphant and the Victorian Literary Market Place Vineta and Robert A. Colby  
La Belle Otero      
  La Belle Otero Arthur H. Lewis  
Samuel Palmer      
  The Parting Light: Selected Writings Samuel Palmer Abley, Mark (e)
Paracelsus      
  Paracelsus: Magic into Science Henry M. Pachter  
Boris Pasternak      
  I Remember: Sketch for an Autobiography Boris Pasternak Magarshack, David (t)
Walter Pater      
  Walter Pater Ferris Greenslet  
       
  The Case of Walter Pater Michael Levey  
Coventry Patmore      
  Coventry Patmore Edmund Gosse  
Thomas Love Peacock      
  Thomas Love Peacock [Writers and Their Work 156] J.I.M. Stewart  
Pearsall Smith      
  The Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women Barbara Strachey  
Samuel Pepys      
  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, M.A.F.R.S.: Volume I Samuel Pepys  
       
  Samuel Pepys Stephen Coote  
Georges Perec      
  Georges Perec, Felipe Alfau [in The Review of Contemporary Fiction XIII.1, Spring 1993]   Bellos, David (e: Perec section)
Saint-John Perse      
  Saint-John Perse: A Study of His Poetry Arthur Knodel  
Eliot Porter      
  Summer Island: Penobscot Country Eliot Porter Brower, David (e)
Beatrix Potter      
  The Tale of Beatrix Potter: A Biography Margaret Lane  
Ezra Pound      
  Ezra Pound Charles Norman  
       
  The Poetic Achievement of Ezra Pound Michael Alexander  
       
  Reading the Cantos: A Study of Meaning in Ezra Pound Noel Stock  
Anthony Powell      
  Journals, 1990-1992 Anthony Powell  
       
  The Memoirs of Anthony Powell, Messengers of Day, Volume 2 Anthony Powell  
       
  The Memoirs of Anthony Powell, Volume 3, Faces in My Time Anthony Powell  
       
  To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell, Volume 1, Infants of the Spring Anthony Powell  
       
  To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell, Volume 4, Strangers Are All Gone Anthony Powell  
       
  Anthony Powell: A Life Michael Barber  
Dawn Powell      
  The Diaries of Dawn Powell, 1931-1965 Dawn Powell Page, Tim (e)
       
  Dawn Powell: A Biography Tim Page  
John Cowper Powys      
  Petrushka and the Dancer: The Diaries of John Cowper Powys, 1929-1939 John Cowper Powys Crissdottir, Morine (e)
Prester John      
  The Realm of Prester John Robert Silverberg  
Marcel Proust      
  Marcel Proust: A Biography, Volume 1 George D. Painter  
       
  Marcel Proust William C. Carter  
Barbara Pym      
  A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters Barbara Pym Holt, Hazel (e); Pym, Hilary (e)
Raymond Queneau      
  The Lyric Encyclopedia of Raymond Queneau Jane Alison Hale  
Gwen Raverat      
  Period Piece Gwen Raverat  
Man Ray      
  Man Ray: American Artist Neil Baldwin  
Restif De La Bretonne      
  Restif’s Novels; or, An Autobiography in Search of an Author Charles A. Porter  
Jean Rhys      
  The Letters of Jean Rhys Jean Rhys Wyndham, Francis (e); Melly, Diana (e)
Laura Riding      
  In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding Deborah Baker  
       
  Pursuit of Truth Joyce Piell Wexler  
Arthur Rimbaud      
  Arthur Rimbaud Benjamin Ivry  
       
  Arthur Rimbaud Enid Starkie  
       
  The Poetry of Rimbaud Robert Greer Cohn  
Christina Rossetti      
  Christina Rossetti Lona Mosk Packer  
Raymond Roussel      
  Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel Michel Foucault Ruas, Charles (t); Ashbery, John (s)
John Ruskin      
  Ruskin’s Maze: Mastery and Madness In His Art Jay Fellows  
       
  Praeterita: The Autobiography of John Ruskin John Ruskin  
William Ingraham Russell      
  The Romance and Tragedy of a Widely Known Business Man of New York William Ingraham Russell  
Mark Rutherford      
  The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford Mark Rutherford Shapcott, Reuben (e)
Count of Saint Germain      
  The Count of Saint Germain Isabel Cooper-Oakley  
Margarett Sargent      
  The White Blackbird Honor Moore  
James Schuyler      
  The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O’Hara James Schuyler Corbett, William (e)
       
  Two Journals James Schuyler Park, Darragh (e)
Delmore Schwartz      
  Letters of Delmore Schwartz Delmore Schwartz Phillips, Robert (e)
       
  Portrait of Delmore: Journals and Notes of Delmore Schwartz, 1939-1959 Delmore Schwartz Pollet, Elizabeth (e)
       
  Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet James Atlas  
Marguerite Sechehaye      
  Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl Marguerite Sechehaye Rubin-Rabson, Grace (t); Conroy, Frank (s)
Misia Sert      
  Misia Arthur Gold Fizdale, Robert (a)
Percy Bysshe Shelley      
  Shelley: The Pursuit Richard Holmes  
John Skelton      
  John Skelton Maurice Pollet  
Stephen Spender      
  Stephen Spender: A Portrait with Background Hugh Davis  
       
  Stephen Spender: Journals, 1939-1983 Stephen Spender Goldsmith, John (e)
Gertrude Stein      
  A History of Having a Great Many Times Not Continued to Be Friends: The Correspondence between Mabel Dodge and Gertrude Stein, 1911-1934 Gertrude Stein Everett, Patricia R. (e)
       
  Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company James R. Mellow  
       
  The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and Her World John Malcolm Brinnin  
Wallace Stevens      
  Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate Harold Bloom  
       
  Parts of a World: Wallace Stevens Remembered Peter Brazeau  
       
  Wallace Stevens: Musing the Obscure Ronald Sukenick  
       
  Letters of Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens Stevens, Holly (e)
August Strindberg      
  August Strindberg Olof Lagercrantz Hollo, Anselm (t)
Italo Svevo      
  Italo Svevo: The Man and the Writer P.N. Furbank  
Algernon Charles Swinburne      
  At the Pines: Swinburne and Watts-Dunton in Putney Mollie Panter-Downs  
Stephen Tennant      
  Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant Philip Hoar  
Flora Thompson      
  Lark Rise To Candleford Flora Thompson  
Virgil Thomson      
  Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle Anthony Tommasini  
Alice B. Toklas      
  Letters of Alice B. Toklas Alice B. Toklas Burns, Edward (e)
       
  What Is Remembered Alice B. Toklas  
       
  The Biography of Alice B. Toklas Linda Simon  
Anthony Trollope      
  The Trollopes: The Chronicle of a Writing Family Lucy and Richard Poate Stebbins  
J.M.W. Turner      
  Standing in the Sun Anthony Bailey  
Tristan Tzara      
  Tristan Tzara Elmer Peterson  
Paul Verlaine      
  Paul Verlaine and the Decadents, 1882-90 Philip Stephan  
Francis Bacon Verulam      
  The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Francis Ld. Verulam, Viscount St. Alban Francis Bacon Verulam  
Diana Vreeland      
  Diana Vreeland Eleanor Dwight  
Robert Walser      
  Beneficent Irrelevancies: Robert Walser and The Robber [in The Hollins Critic XL.1, February 2003] Tom Whalen  
Mary Augusta Ward      
  Mrs. Humphry Ward Enid Huws Jones  
Andy Warhol      
  Andy Warhol Wayne Koestenbaum  
       
Sylvia Townsend Warner      
  Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography Harman, Claire  
       
John Waters      
  Crackpot: The Obsessions John Waters  
Denton Welch      
  Maiden Voyage Denton Welch  
       
  Denton Welch: The Making of a Writer Michael De-la-Noy  
Edith Wharton      
  Henry James and Edith Wharton: Letters, 1900-1915 Edith Wharton James, Henry (a); Powers, Lyall H. (e)
John Wheelwright      
  The Revolutionary Imagination: The Poetry and Politics of John Wheelwright and Sherry Mangan Alan M. Wald  
Walt Whitman      
  Masculine Landscapes: Walt Whitman and the Homoerotic Text Byrne R.S. Fone  
       
  Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative Emory Holloway  
Oscar Wilde      
  Oscar Wilde Richard Ellmann  
Emlyn Williams      
  Emlyn Williams: A Life James Harding  
Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor      
  The Last of the Duchess Caroline Blackwood  
Ludwig Wittgenstein      
  Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: An Introduction H.O. Mounce  
P.G. Wodehouse      
  Bring on the Girls!: The Improbable Story of Our Life in Musical Comedy P.G. Wodehouse Bolton, Guy (a)
Cornell Woolrich      
  Cornell Woolrich: First You Dream, Then You Die Francis M. Nevins Jr.  
Charles Frederick Worth      
  Worth: Father of Haute Couture Diana de Marly  
W.B. Yeats      
  Autobiographies: Reveries over Childhood and Youth and the Trembling of the Veil W.B. Yeats  
Sir Basil Zaharoff      
  Peddler of Death: The Life and Times of Sir Basil Zaharoff Donald McCormick  
       
  Zaharoff: High Priest of War Guiles Davenport