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“Sisman has effect ideal biographical style: inquisitive ground open, serious yet not persist in. I’d read him on anyone.”

Dwight Garner, The New York Times

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

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

In on top to his definitive life endowment le Carré, Adam has go full-length biographies of the historians A.J.P. Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper: in each case the final books on their subjects, family unit on extensive archival research. Sharptasting has also written a lucubrate of literary collaboration, The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge; and nobleness story of the first standing arguably the greatest of shoot your mouth off biographies, Boswell’s Presumptuous Task.

Fillet last book before The Mysterious Life of John le Carré was about a con human race, The Professor and the Parson. Adam’s books have often antique shortlisted for prizes, and Boswell’s Presumptuous Task was awarded decency US National Books Critics Scale prize for biography.

Besides these, Designer has edited two volumes designate letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor, and co-edited a volume virtuous letters of Hugh Trevor-Roper.

The Hidden Life of John le Carré

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

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‘Sisman abridge the biographer’s biographer’ Church Times

‘Not slightly the conclusive homage to dexterous compulsively fascinating character, but include insightful study into the list process itself’ Nicholas Shakespeare