Contains primary source material.

C.S. Lewis tells the story of how he passed from atheism to Christianity, giving information on his childhood and adolescence as background to understanding his spiritual life.

As Johnson's constant and admiring companion, Boswell was able to record not only the outward events of his life, but also the humour, wit, and sturdy common sense of his conversation.

"Several million readers throughout the world have enjoyed The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. This is the authorized biography of their creator, J.R.R. Tolkien." --

For the biographer this is a double-edged sword, however: thereare many periods for which documentation is uncommonly difficult.

Some of the characters are thinly disguised portraits. Perhaps the most famous of Huxley's early novels.

The Book of Margery Kempe is the extraordinary account of a medieval wife, mother, and mystic.

This, the first biography to draw on a close study of the new "Complete Works", sheds a new light on this extraordinary literary figure through interviews with family and friends, and research into material in the Orwell archive.