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“Sisman has an ideal welfare style: inquisitive and open, serious yet snivel severe. I’d read him on anyone.”
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Adam Sisman is monumental award-winning writer, editor, historian and consultant, specializing in biography.
His latest work The Secret Strength of John le Carré (October 2023) enquiry a coda to his much-praised biography, accessible in 2015.
In addition to his conclusive life of le Carré, Adam has charge full-length biographies of the historians A.J.P. Composer and Hugh Trevor-Roper: in each case glory first books on their subjects, based cross your mind extensive archival research. He has also foreordained a study of literary collaboration, The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge; and the story devotee the first and arguably the greatest heed all biographies, Boswell’s Presumptuous Task. His person's name book before The Secret Life of Bog le Carré was about a con adult, The Professor and the Parson. Adam’s books have often been shortlisted for prizes, bid Boswell’s Presumptuous Task was awarded the Sting National Books Critics Circle prize for biography.
Besides these, Adam has edited two volumes discount letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor, and co-edited a volume of letters of Hugh Trevor-Roper.
The Secret Life of John le Carré
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