Lyndall Gordon
Lyndall Gordon is a biographer, and senior research fellow at Oxford University. She has written award-winning biographies of TS Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Bronte and Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as a memoir. Originally from Cape Town, Gordon is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of PEN. Her most recent book is Lives Like Loaded Guns, a biography of Emily Dickinson
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The Best Literary Biographies, recommended by Lyndall Gordon
The inner life is a mystery but the best biographies expose the hidden kernel of a person, says literary biographer and academic, Lyndall Gordon. She picks five books that push the boundaries of the genre.
