Background
Adam Sisman was born on March 17, 1954, in London, United Kingdom. He is the eldest child of David and Marjorie Sisman.
St Paul's School, Lonsdale Rd, Barnes, London SW13 9JT, United Kingdom
Adam attended St Paul's School.
University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RH, United Kingdom
Adam attended the University of Sussex, where he read history.
United Kingdom
Adam Sisman
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Adam Sisman
United Kingdom
Adam Sisman
(A fascinating foray into the life of James Boswell, who w...)
A fascinating foray into the life of James Boswell, who was considered a lecher and a drunk, follows his seven-year struggle to write an autobiography of his friend and mentor Dr. Samuel Johnson and details his friendship with Dr. Johnson, his desperate attempts to become well-respected in the literary community, and how he eventually triumphed over adversity.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0374115613/?tag=prabook0b-20
1999
(Traces the friendship and collaborations of William Words...)
Traces the friendship and collaborations of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from their initial encounter as young men in 1795, to their creation of Lyrical Ballads, to their role in initiating England's Romantic Movement.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0670038229/?tag=prabook0b-20
2007
(Profoundly bright and brutally acerbic, Hugh Trevor-Roper...)
Profoundly bright and brutally acerbic, Hugh Trevor-Roper was a literary lion like no other, and in An Honourable Englishman he receives the absorbing biography he deserves.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1400069769/?tag=prabook0b-20
2011
(This is the definitive biography of a major writer, descr...)
This is the definitive biography of a major writer, described by Ian McEwan as 'perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the twentieth century in Britain'.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/John-Carr%C3%A9-Biography-Adam-Sisman/dp/1408827921/?tag=prabook0b-20
2015
(Based on Trevor-Roper's own detailed 'file on Peters', Th...)
Based on Trevor-Roper's own detailed 'file on Peters', The Professor and the Parson is a witty and charming account of eccentricity, extraordinary narcissism and a life as wild and unlikely as any in fiction.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Professor-Parson-Desire-Deceit-Defrocking/dp/1788162110/?tag=prabook0b-20
2019
Adam Sisman was born on March 17, 1954, in London, United Kingdom. He is the eldest child of David and Marjorie Sisman.
Adam attended St Paul's School and then the University of Sussex, where he read history.
After graduating, Adam Sisman worked in book publishing before becoming a writer. His first book, published in 1994, was a life of Trevor-Roper's colleague and rival, A.J.P. Taylor. In 2006, Sisman published a much-admired study of the friendship between Wordsworth and Coleridge. Among his other works are two volumes of letters by Patrick Leigh Fermor, biographies of John Le Carre and Hugh Trevor-Roper. Most recent Sisman's book, The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking, came out in 2019. He is also a frequent contributor of articles to The Guardian, The New York Times, Daily Mail, London Evening Standard, The Nation, New Statesman, The Big Issue, and Literary Review.
(Traces the friendship and collaborations of William Words...)
2007(Based on Trevor-Roper's own detailed 'file on Peters', Th...)
2019(A fascinating foray into the life of James Boswell, who w...)
1999(This is the definitive biography of a major writer, descr...)
2015(Profoundly bright and brutally acerbic, Hugh Trevor-Roper...)
2011Adam married Robyn Sisman in 1979, who died in 2016. They have two daughters, Flora and Charlotte.