Adam Sisman

Adam Sisman
Born London
Nationality British
Alma mater University of Sussex
Genre Biography
Notable awards National Book Critics Circle Award

Adam Sisman is a British biographer. He received the National Book Critics Circle Award, for Boswell's Presumptuous Task. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[1]

Life

He was born in London in 1954, the eldest child of David and Marjorie Sisman <www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-david-sisman-1351442.html>. He has one sister, the graphic designer Lucy Sisman <http://www.lucysisman.com/about/>. 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 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robyn_Sisman>, who died in 2016. They have two daughters, Flora (b. 1990) and Charlotte (b.1992).

Works

  • 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)[2][3][4]

(edited)

  • Dashing for the Post: Selected Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor (2016)
  • More Dashing: Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor (2018)

(co-edited with Richard Davenport-Hines)

  • One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper (2013)

References

  1. ↑ "MORE DASHING: AN EVENING WITH ADAM SISMAN AND ARTEMIS COOPER - Hatchards". Hatchards. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
  2. ↑ "Review: Adam Sisman's 'John le Carré: The Biography'". Retrieved 2018-08-30.
  3. ↑ McCrum, Robert (2015-10-25). "John le Carré: The Biography by Adam Sisman review – a man who's become his own best fiction". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
  4. ↑ "John Le Carre: The Biography by Adam Sisman, book review". The Independent. Retrieved 2018-08-30.


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