"his grandfather Henry Compton, a well-known Shakespearean actor of the Victorian era. His father, Edward Compton, and mother, Virginia Bateman, were actors and theatre company managers; his sister, Fay Compton, starred in many of J. M. Barrie's plays, including ""Peter Pan"". He was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with a degree in modern history. Sir Compton Mackenzie is perhaps best known for two comic novels set in Scotland: ""Whisky Galore"" (1947) set in the Hebrides, and ""The Monarch of the Glen"" (1941) set in the Scottish Highlands. They were the sources of"
"a successful film and a television series respectively. He published almost a hundred books on different subjects, including ten volumes of autobiography: ""My Life and Times"" (1963–71). He wrote history (on the Battle of Marathon and the Battle of Salamis), biography (""Mr Roosevelt"", a 1943 biography of FDR), literary criticism, satires, apologia (""Sublime Tobacco"" 1957), children's stories, poetry and so on. Of his fiction, ""The Four Winds of Love"" is sometimes considered his ""magnum opus"". He was admired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose first book, ""This Side of Paradise"", was written under the literary influence of Compton. ""Sinister Street"", his"
"list of his published works. These include books and articles, most of which are compiled in three bibliographies of his work published during his lifetime. Two of these, published in 1934 and 1955, are both titled ""The Published Writings of Henry R. Wagner"". The latter was published by the Zamorano Club and lists 167 titles. Another bibliography came in the form of a ""Check List"" at the end of his 1942 autobiography, ""Bullion to Books"". In addition to those published pieces, many unpublished bibliographical and cartographic documents went to the Yale University Library over a fifty-year period. These included notes"
"his Davies Lecture of 1942), two novels (' (1928) and ' (1939)), and a biography of the Welsh teacher and missionary Helen Rowlands (1961). He also wrote various theological books: ' (1925), ' (1927), ' (1943), ""The Wonderful Life"" (1941), and ' (1948). He also contributed to ' (1926), and the ""Dictionary of Welsh Biography"". He edited ' from 1929 to 1930, serving as assistant editor from 1931 to 1944. He was the editor of ' from 1949 to 1957. Chapters from his autobiography appeared in this journal, and they were collected together as "" in 1967. After his retirement,"
"Medi"" (""September Grapes"", 1974), ""Tân"" (""Fire"", 1979) and ""Dringo'r Ysgol"" (""Climbing the Ladder"", 1989), and a collection ""Mydylau"" (""Haycocks"") in 2004. He also wrote three biographies (including two of his uncle, Lloyd George, ""The Making of Lloyd George"" in 1976 and ""Lloyd George: backbencher"" in 1983, based on the archive that he inherited on his father's death in 1967) and his own autobiography, called ""88 Not Out"" (), published in May 2001. He was married twice. He first married Dora Harley in 1943, but they were divorced. He married Greta Bogner in 1953, having one son (also a solicitor) and"
"My Life and Loves My Life and Loves is the autobiography of the Ireland-born, naturalized-American writer and editor Frank Harris (1856–1931). As published privately by Harris between 1922 and 1927, and by Jack Kahane's Obelisk Press in 1931, the work consisted of four volumes, illustrated with many drawings and photographs of nude women. The book gives a graphic account of Harris' sexual adventures and relates gossip about the sexual activities of celebrities of his day. The work was banned in both the United States and Britain for a span of 40 years. At one time it was sold in Paris"
"Campbell's Omnibus"" (1954), ""A Short Trot with a Cultured Mind"", ""A Long Drink of Cold Water"", ""How to Become a Scratch Golfer"" (1963), ""The P-P-Penguin Patrick Campbell"" (1965), ""Brewing Up in the Basement"", ""Rough Husbandry"", ""All Ways on Sundays"" (1966), ""A Bunch of New Roses"", ""The Coarse of Events"", ""Gullible Travels"", ""The High Speed Gasworks"", ""Waving All Excuses"", ""Patrick Campbell's Golfing Book"", ""Fat Tuesday Tails"" (1972), ""35 Years on the Job"" (1973), ""The Campbell Companion"" (1987) and an autobiography, ""My Life and Easy Times"". Campbell was married three times, first in 1941 to Sylvia Alfreda Willoughby Lee, whom he divorced"
"of seven books: ""The Unmaking of Gough"" (1976), ""The Hawke Ascendancy"" (1984), ""The End of Certainty"" (1992), ""November 1975"" (1995), ""Paradise Divided"" (2000), ""100 Years: The Australian Story"" (2001) and ""The March of Patriots"" (2009). ""Triumph and Demise"" was launched by the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott in Canberra in 2014. It chronicles the six years of the Rudd-Gillard Labor governments, including the Liberal opposition of the period. The author conducted interviews with more than 60 of the key players of the Rudd-Gillard era, and explores the tensions at the heart of the strained relationships between the central personalities at"
"he also had a minor acting role. During the Second World War he was a speaker for the Ministry of Information and the National Savings Movement. He wrote ""The Man David"" (1944), a life of David Lloyd George. After the war he wrote two volumes of autobiography, ""Me and Mine"" (1946) and ""Give Me Back My Heart"" (1950), three novels, ""Off to Philadelphia in the Morning"" (1947), ""Some Trust in Chariots"" (1948), and ""River Out of Eden"" (1951), and a play ""Transatlantic Episode"" (1947). His later works, ""Lily of the Valley"" and ""Lucky Year"" (1952), ""Time and the Business"" (1953),"
"1977-82. He has published thirteen volumes of verse, the biography of a Victorian journalist, articles on Victorian journalism, and has edited a book on St John’s College, Cambridge. From 2005-2009 he was on the Board of Magma Poetry, for which he has written reviews and articles. He edited Magma 39 (Winter 2007/08 issue). His verse has appeared in a number of magazines. He has written a series of poems on Dentdale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, with which both he and his wife have family associations. He married Sarah Gillian Sedgwick in 1968. They have three children and five"
"""Bestseller"", an exploration of English popular fiction, ""Aspects of English History"" (1957), ""The Devil's Decade"" (1973), his history of the 1930s, and ""Union Power"" (1976). His first volume of memoirs was published as ""In Time of Trouble"" (1956) in the UK and as ""A Discord of Trumpets"" in the U.S.. This was followed by ""Crossing the Line"" (1958), and ""A View from the West"" (1961). Revised, these were published by Penguin as ""I, Claud..."" in 1967. Again revised and shortened, with a new chapter, they were republished as ""Cockburn Sums Up"" shortly before he died. Claud Cockburn married three times:"
"1963. This edition contained no illustrations. Gallagher described the Trocchi version as ""apparently not authentic"". James Campbell, comparing the two editions' fifth volumes, does however argue that Girodias's 20% figure was too low. My Life and Loves My Life and Loves is the autobiography of the Ireland-born, naturalized-American writer and editor Frank Harris (1856–1931). As published privately by Harris between 1922 and 1927, and by Jack Kahane's Obelisk Press in 1931, the work consisted of four volumes, illustrated with many drawings and photographs of nude women. The book gives a graphic account of Harris' sexual adventures and relates gossip about"
"life, he produced numerous books. These include biographies (""The Life of John Linnell"", ""William Ewart Gladstone and his Contemporaries"", ""William Blake, his Life, Character and Genius"", ""James Holmes and John Varley""); local histories ""(Historical Legends of Northamptonshire"", ""American Shrines in England""); literary essays ""(Books that are the Hearts of Men"", ""A Book of Vagrom Men and Vagrant Thoughts""); popular science works (""Wireless Telegraphy"", ""The Story of Photography""); history (""The Building of the Empire""); economics (""The Martyrdom of Labour""); travel (""Swiss Life in Town and Country"", "" North Wales""); public school fiction (""Boys of St. Elmos""); romances (""Only Half a Hero"","""
"the historian Glen Bowersock, while the Gibbon scholar Jane Elizabeth Norton said that ""By all the standards of scholarship, Lord Sheffield's conduct was deplorable."" Memoirs of My Life and Writings Memoirs of My Life and Writings (1796) is an account of the historian Edward Gibbon's life, compiled after his death by his friend Lord Sheffield from six fragmentary autobiographical works Gibbon wrote during his last years. Lord Sheffield's editing has been praised for its ingenuity and taste, but blamed for its unscholarly aggressiveness. Since 1896 several other editions of the work have appeared, more in accordance with modern standards. Gibbon's"
"life and contemporaries at Eton, an edition of the ""Letters of Herbert Cardinal Vaughan to Lady Herbert of Lea"" (1942), and a biography ""Mrs Fitzherbert: a life chiefly from unpublished sources"" (1939), together with an edition of her letters (with Maria Anne Fitzherbert), ""The letters of Mrs Fitzherbert and connected papers; being the second volume of the life of Mrs. Fitzherbert"" (1944). He also wrote ""Mark Sykes: His Life and Letters"" (1923), a biography of the English traveller, Conservative Party politician and diplomatic advisor. A passionate advocate of reforestation, he found the business of running an estate uncreative and boring,"
"the novels ""Stand and Give Challenge"" (1934), ""Candle for the Proud"" (1936) and ""Men Withering"" (1939). A second trilogy followed which turned its attention to contemporary Ireland: ""This House Was Mine"" (1937), ""Flow On, Lovely River"" (1941), and ""Watergate"" (1942). The location was the fictional ""Dombridge"", based on Kilkenny, and deal with established themes of Irish rural life: obsessions with land, sexual frustration, and the trials of emigration and return. Other major works include the novel ""The Greatest of These"" (1943), concerning religious conflict in nineteenth-century Kilkenny, and the biographies ""Boccaccio"" (1947) and ""Saint Columban"" (1963). In his last two"
"always challenging; he expected everyone to match his commitment to poetry as a way of life. But they also digressed into other shared enthusiasms: in my case his love of baseball and sumo wrestling, and often into the difficulties of making a living in expensive Japan."" He was a prolific poet until his final illness, publishing more than 100 books and pamphlets. In 1990, he published the first two volumes of his selected poems, ""OF"", running to some 1500 poems. Volume 3, with a further 750 poems appeared in 1998 and two further volumes are planned. Several collections of wide-ranging"
"wrote many books, including his autobiography, ""Groucho and Me"" (1959) and ""Memoirs of a Mangy Lover"" (1963). He was a friend of such literary figures as Booth Tarkington, T. S. Eliot and Carl Sandburg. Much of his personal correspondence with those and other figures is featured in the book ""The Groucho Letters"" (1967) with an introduction and commentary on the letters written by Groucho, who donated his letters to the Library of Congress. His daughter Miriam published a collection of his letters to her in 1992 titled ""Love, Groucho."" Groucho made serious efforts to learn to play the guitar. In"
"a working majority. He returned to the House of Lords at the end of 1974 when he accepted a life peerage, becoming known as Baron Home of the Hirsel, of Coldstream in the County of Berwick. Between 1977 and 1989 Home was Governor of I Zingari, the nomadic cricket team. In retirement he published three books: ""The Way The Wind Blows"" (1976), described by Hurd as ""a good-natured autobiography, with perhaps more anecdotes than insights"", ""Border Reflections"" (1979), and his correspondence with his grandson Matthew Darby, ""Letters to a Grandson"" (1983). In the 1980s Home increasingly spent his time in"
"together and published in one volume a collection of anecdotes and traits of the author, under the title of ""Irvingiana"" (1859); ""History of the War for the Union"" (3 vols., 1861'5); ""Memorials of John Allan"" (1864); ""Poems relating to the American Revolution, with Memoirs of the Authors"" (1865); ""Poems of Philip Freneau"", with notes and a memoir (1865); ""National Gallery of Eminent Americans"" (2 vols., 1866); ""History of the World from the Earliest Period to the Present Time"" (4 vols., 1870); and an extensive series of ""Biographies of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America"" (2 vols., 1873'4). His"
"Magazine"", remaining as editor until 1961, following which he was a frequent lecturer and completed his three-volume autobiography, ""Whispering Gallery"" (1955), ""I Am My Brother"" (1960) and ""The Ample Proposition"" (1966). ""In The Purely Pagan Sense"" (1976) is an autobiographical record of his homosexual life in England and pre-war Germany, discreetly written in the form of a novel. He also wrote the biographies ""Edith Sitwell"" (1952), ""Virginia Woolf and her World"" (1975), ""Thrown to the Woolfs"" (1978) and ""Rupert Brooke"" (1980). In 1965 he published ""Christ the Hunter"", a spiritual/autobiographical prose poem which had been broadcast in 1964 on the"
"10 years. ""More Letters to my Son"", ""Letters of a Spinster"", and ""A Sweeping"" came out in 1911. Three travel books followed, ""The Mulberry Tree"" (1913), ""A Woman in the Wilderness"" (1915), and ""Out of the Shadows"" (1924). A novel, ""Three Births in the Hemingway Family"", was published in 1929, and in the following year two volumes of essays ""London is my Lute"" and ""A Man for England"", which was also issued with the title ""A Man for Empire"". Another book of travel, ""Gangways and Corridors"", appeared in 1936. Miss James married in 1913 Henry de Jan of Louisiana, U.S.A.,"
"collection, Looking into the Deep End, which became a Poetry Book Society Choice. His important survey Women Leaders In African History was published in 1984. In 1986, ""Zeffirelli"", a biography of Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli was published. He then turned to writing artist biographies. His 1990 Vincent van Gogh biography, ""The Love of Many Things"" became an award-winning book. This was quickly followed by biographies of Mary Renault (1994), Paul Gauguin (1995), and Toulouse-Lautrec (1999). He had a novel, A Tribal Fever, published in 1996. A generous man with an acerbic wit, his London home was often filled with"
"in the city"" and ""the finest private collection of New Zealand literature (touching this colony, that is) extant"" in an article in the New Zealand Graphic. Estimated to be over 500 books on Polynesian and New Zealand history in 1887, he left a collection of 304 books, the earliest being dated 1773, to the Auckland University College in an inlaid wood bookcase upon his death. These books were mostly travel experiences but included political and botanical books with books in Maori. He and his first wife, née Christine Whisker born in Auckland in 1874 to Private Whisker, had three sons,"
"Years later, he wrote a memorable and invaluable account of the book's background and genesis, his working methods and influences, as well as its reception by the critics, favorable and hostile, in an autobiographical article notable for its human warmth and general interest. Although he never matched the success of his ""Spoon River Anthology"", he did publish several other volumes of poems including ""Book of Verses"" in 1898, ""Songs and Sonnets"" in 1910, ""The Great Valley"" in 1916, ""Song and Satires"" in 1916, ""The Open Sea"" in 1921, ""The New Spoon River"" in 1924, ""Lee"" in 1926, ""Jack Kelso"" in"
"pen. He contributed also to sundry publications, official and otherwise, and wrote or edited the following books: 1. ""Glossary of Mineralogy,"" 1861. 2. ""Underground Life"" (translation, with additions of ""La Vie Souterraine,"" by L. Simonin), 1869. 3. ""The World before the Deluge"" (a translation, with additions, of a work by L. Figuier), 1872. On 22 October 1863 he married Eliza Harrison, second daughter of David Harrison, a London solicitor, and to them four children were born, two sons and as many daughters; they and the widow surviving him. Bristow was elected F.R.S. in 1862. A road in Cheylesmore, Coventry UK"
"Britannica"" on “bell”. His best-known book was ""Music and Morals"" (1871), which went through sixteen editions before the end of the century, and he was for a time from 1868 editor of ""Cassell's Magazine"". He also wrote the five-volume ""Christ and Christianity"", a popular church history (1886–1887), as well as ""Travel and Talk"" (1896) and similar chatty and entertaining books. His book ""My Musical Life"" offers a biographical tour through his career and his spiritual leanings in music, tracing his awakening to music, his interest in the Cremonese violin makers and in Paganini, an exposition of ""The Ring of the"
"core of his work, and “fictionalised autobiography.” Further volumes in the series ""The Tyranny of Love"", ""Lovers in War"" and ""The Victims of Love"" appeared in 1967, 1969 and 1978. With a Dickensian breadth of characters and social settings, the four volumes follow the saga of the Simpson family from the end of World War I through to the 1960s age of sexual and social experimentation. It focuses in particular on the tortuous search for self-realisation and love by Sundy and Matthew, the two artistically gifted children of the raucously womanising Eddy. The sequence was described by Sir Huw Wheldon"
"fiction, ""Out of Space and Time"" (1942). This was followed by ""Lost Worlds"" (1944). The books sold slowly, went out of print and became costly rarities. Derleth published five more volumes of Smith's prose and two of his verse, and at his death in 1971 had a large volume of Smith's poems in press. In 1953 Smith suffered a coronary attack. Aged 61, he married Carol(yn) Jones Dorman on November 10, 1954. Dorman had much experience in Hollywood and radio public relations. After honeymooning at the Smith cabin, they moved to Pacific Grove, California, where he set up a household"
"have been written in French. Several of them have been translated into English. Gray's last book ""Au nom de tous les hommes"" (2005) has not yet been translated into English. Two of Gray's books are autobiographies: the already mentioned ""For Those I Loved"" covers the era from his birth in 1922 to 1970, when Gray lost his wife and his four children in a forest fire. His second autobiography, ""La vie renaitra de la nuit,"" (""Life Arises Out of Darkness"") covers 1970-77, during which Gray found his second wife, Virginia. In this second autobiography he describes desperately looking for a"
"often tightly compressed and usually very funny. At the same time he was starting to work as a script-writer in films, a subject which always passionately interested him. Then he turned his attention further back: first to his unhappy prewar period as a salesman, which became the subject of his one really serious novel ""Of Love and Hunger"" (1947) then to his childhood as son of a none too prosperous Scottish father, dividing his retirement between France and a melancholy-refined English seaside. ""The Weeping and the Laughter"", the first volume of this autobiography, appeared in 1953 and only took him"
"History of English Literature"" and edited the ""Penguin Companion to Literature – Britain and the Commonwealth"" (1971). He wrote biographical and critical works on Virginia Woolf, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Burns, D. H. Lawrence, John Milton, and Sir Walter Scott. He also wrote two autobiographical volumes, books on Scotch whisky, the King James Bible, and the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, a biography of Bonnie Prince Charlie, and a volume of poetry. Starting at the University of Edinburgh, he had a long and influential career teaching in the UK, the US and Canada. He taught or held visiting posts at"
"1946), Elizabeth (1947), Tony (1961) and Mark (1963). She spent the rest of her life in Saskatchewan, first in the remote Big Muddy valley, then in Saskatoon. Most of her fifteen books are collections of poetry, but she also wrote a memoir, ""The Voice, the Word, the Text"" (1990) as well as ""Z."", a play about the Holocaust. Her first book, ""Woman Reading in Bath"" (1974), was published by Doubleday in New York. Thereafter she made the deliberate choice to publish her work with Canadian presses. She helped found the Saskatchewan Writers Guild and the literary journal ""Grain"", and served"