Literary “It-girls” and their complicated legacies. Candid reflections on lives fractured by devastating injuries. Art world excess. And a deep dive into what it truly means to be a sociopath. This year’s very best biographies and memoirs certainly cover some varied terrain, emotionally and otherwise.
Fans of literary biographies have been treated to books providing enlightening new perspectives on heavyweights such as Thomas Hardy and Virginia Woolf, as well as accounts of lesser-known but no less fascinating authors, while some of our best contemporary writers, such as Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi and Sarah Moss, have swapped fiction for memoir.
