Rimbaud
by Edmund White | 
Walt Whitman
by Justin Kaplan | 
Philip Larkin
by Andrew Motion |
Anne Sexton
by Diane Middlebrook |
Arthur Rimbaud
by Enid Starkie | 
Balzac
by Stefan Zweig | 
Victor Hugo
by Graham Robb | 
Samuel Beckett
by Anthony Cronin | 
Tony Hancock
by John Fisher | 
The Knox Brothers
by Penelope Fitzgerald |
Dorothy Day
by William Miller |
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham
by Selina Hastings |
Tom
by Lyle Leverich |
The Lonely Hunter
by Virginia Spencer Carr |
Gore Vidal
by Fred Kaplan | 
Music at Midnight
by John Drury |
Byron
by Fiona MacCarthy | 
Walt Whitman's America
by David S. Reynolds |
Paul Celan
by John Felstiner | 
Young Romantics
by Daisy Hay |
Unknown beyond the avant-garde at the time of his death, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) has been one of the most destructive and liberating influences on twentieth-century culture. During his lifetime he was a bourgeois-baiting visionary, and the list of his known crimes is longer than the list of his published poems. But his posthumous career is even more astonishing: saint to symbolists and surrealists; poster child for anarchy and drug use; gay pioneer; a major influence on artists from Picasso to Bob Dylan.