The Invisible Woman
by Claire Tomalin | 
Raymond Carver
by Carol Sklenicka |
Mad World
by Paula Byrne |
The World Is What It Is
by Patrick French |
A Lot to Ask
by Hazel Holt | 
A Tragic Honesty
by Blake Bailey |
Simenon
by Pierre Assouline | 
Anais
by Noel Riley Fitch | 
Howard Hughes
by Donald L. Barlett | 
Cheever
by Blake Bailey |
Tove Jansson
by Tuula Karjalainen |
Albert Camus
by Herbert R. Lottman | 
Like a Fiery Elephant
by Jonathan Coe | 
Simone de Beauvoir
by Deirdre Bair |
May Sarton
by Margot Peters |
Invisible Writer
by Greg Johnson |
A River in Darkness
by Masaji Ishikawa | 
Seabiscuit
by Laura Hillenbrand |
Lady in Waiting
by Anne Glenconner | 
Upstairs at the White House
by J. B. West |
The novels of Thomas Hardy have a permanent place on every booklover's shelf, yet little is known about the interior life of the man who wrote them. A believer and an unbeliever, a socialist and a snob, an unhappy husband and a desolate widower, Hardy challenged the sexual and religious conventions of his time in his novels and then abandoned fiction to reestablish himself as a great twentieth-century lyric poet. In this acclaimed new biography, Claire Tomalin, one of today's preeminent literary biographers, investigates this beloved writer and reveals a figure as rich and complex as his tremendous legacy.