Adam Sisman (born 17 March 1954) is a British writer, editor and biographer. He received the National Book Critics Circle Award for his second book, Boswell's Presumptuous Task. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Professor of the University of St Andrews.[1]
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Born | London, England | March 17, 1954
Alma mater | University of Sussex |
Genre | Biography |
Notable awards | National Book Critics Circle Award |
Life
editSisman was born in London in 1954, the eldest child of David and Marjorie Sisman. He attended St Paul's School and then the University of Sussex, where he read history. After graduating, he worked in book publishing before becoming a writer. In 1979 he married Robyn Sisman, who died in 2016. They have two daughters.
Works
edit- A. J. P. Taylor: A Biography' (1994)
- Boswell's Presumptuous Task (1999)
- Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Friendship' (2005)
- Hugh Trevor-Roper (2010)
- John le Carré (2015)
- The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking (2019)
- '·The Secret Life of John le Carré' (2023)
As editor
- Dashing for the Post: Selected Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor (2016)
- More Dashing: Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor (2018)
As co-editor with Richard Davenport-Hines
- One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper (2013)
References
edit- ^ "MORE DASHING: AN EVENING WITH ADAM SISMAN AND ARTEMIS COOPER - Hatchards". Hatchards. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
External links
edit- https://www.bloomsbury.com/author/adam-sisman
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06kb0g8
- https://www.adamsisman.com
- https://www.profilebooks.com
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