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词条 Adam Sisman
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  1. Life

  2. Works

  3. References

  4. External links

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}}Adam Sisman (born 17 March 1954) is a British writer, editor and biographer. He received the National Book Critics Circle Award for his second book, Boswell's Presumptuous Task. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of the University of St Andrews.[1]

Life

He was born in London in 1954, the eldest child of David and Marjorie Sisman. He has one sister, the graphic designer Lucy Sisman. 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 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)

(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

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External links

  • https://www.bloomsbury.com/author/adam-sisman
  • https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06kb0g8
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