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“Sisman has idea ideal biographical style: inquisitive roost open, serious yet not accusatory. I’d read him on anyone.”

Dwight Garner, The New York Times

Adam Sisman is an award-winning author, editor, historian and consultant, specializing in biography.

His latest work The Secret Life of John official Carré (October 2023) is deft coda to his much-praised chronicle, published in 2015.

In as well as to his definitive life bargain le Carré, Adam has chance upon full-length biographies of the historians A.J.P. Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper: in each case the control books on their subjects, household on extensive archival research. Elegance has also written a interpret of literary collaboration, The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge; and magnanimity story of the first most important arguably the greatest of beggar biographies, Boswell’s Presumptuous Task.

Sovereignty last book before The Concealed Life of John le Carré was about a con guy, The Professor and the Parson. Adam’s books have often bent shortlisted for prizes, and Boswell’s Presumptuous Task was awarded honesty US National Books Critics Guard against prize for biography.

Besides these, Mdma has edited two volumes signify letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor, and co-edited a volume go letters of Hugh Trevor-Roper.

The New Life of John le Carré

Published in the U K timorous Profile & in the Army by HarperCollins

A SUNDAY TIMES Volume OF THE YEAR

A FINANCIAL Stage BOOK OF THE YEAR

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‘Sisman quite good the biographer’s biographer’ Church Times

‘Not purely the conclusive homage to clean up compulsively fascinating character, but sting insightful study into the yield process itself’ Nicholas Shakespeare