Adam Sisman (born 17 March 1954) is a British writer, editor and biographer. He received the
National Book Critics Circle Award
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and an Honorary Professor of the
University of St Andrews
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Life
Sisman was born in London in 1954, the eldest child of David and Marjorie Sisman. He attended
St Paul's School and then the
University of Sussex
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, where he read history. After graduating, he worked in book publishing before becoming a writer. In 1979 he married
Robyn Sisman, who died in 2016. They have two daughters.
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)
* ''The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking (2019)
As editor
* ''Dashing for the Post: Selected Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor'' (2016)
* ''More Dashing: Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor'' (2018)
As co-editor with Richard Davenport-Hines
* ''One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper'' (2013)
References
External links
* https://www.bloomsbury.com/author/adam-sisman
* https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06kb0g8
Living people
English biographers
Alumni of the University of Sussex
Writers from London
Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
20th-century English writers
21st-century English writers
21st-century British non-fiction writers
20th-century British non-fiction writers
1954 births
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