Background
Nicholas Murray was born in 1952 in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom.
University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Nicholas Murray attended the University of Liverpool.
University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Nicholas Murray attended the University of Liverpool.
(A study of the life and work of British writer Chatwin (1...)
A study of the life and work of British writer Chatwin (1940-89) who only wrote seven books, each totally different and each an international success, among them Songlines and On the Black Hill. Focuses on his belief that humans are basically nomadic as the thread connecting his travels to and books about Patagonia, Australia, Wales, and Brazil. Includes stills from the play and movie of On the Black Hill.
https://www.amazon.com/Bruce-Chatwin-Border-Nicholas-Murray/dp/1854110799/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Bruce+Chatwin+Murray&qid=1581920058&s=books&sr=1-1
1993
(Years of research inform a definitive study of Victorian ...)
Years of research inform a definitive study of Victorian poet Matthew Arnold, the author of "Dover Beach," chronicling the life and work of the masterful writer, devoted family man, and impassioned critic of Victorian materialism.
https://www.amazon.com/Life-Matthew-Arnold-Nicholas-Murray/dp/0312151691/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=A+Life+of+Matthew+Arnold+Murray&qid=1581920197&s=books&sr=1-1
1997
(Although the century which followed Andrew Marvell's deat...)
Although the century which followed Andrew Marvell's death remembered him primarily as a politician and a pamphleteer, this gifted poet is responsible for some of the most brilliant lyric exploration of his time. World Enough and Time is an extensive biography written by Nicholas Murray, a biographer whose literary scholarship and political astuteness matches that of his subject.
https://www.amazon.com/World-Enough-Time-Andrew-Marvell-ebook/dp/B00KK4FL5U/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=World+Enough+and+Time%3A+The+Life+of+Andrew+Marvell+Murray&qid=1581920324&s=books&sr=1-1
2000
(Love in all its many guises is the subject of Nicholas Mu...)
Love in all its many guises is the subject of Nicholas Murray's collection of short fiction. Two distinct themes are prevalent throughout the pieces. The first is a humorous take on the classic and convoluted story of Tristan and Iseult, the paradigm of medieval love stories and template for so many other literary relationships. The second is the story of Felix, growing up in postwar Liverpool, moving from boy to man and learning the hard way about love. In between are narratives on love that stretch across Italy and Greece, and through Croydon and tabloid newspapers.
https://www.amazon.com/Short-Book-About-Love/dp/1854113038/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=A+Short+Book+about+Love+Murray&qid=1581920382&s=books&sr=1-1
2001
(The son of biologist T.H. Huxley, Aldous Huxley had a pri...)
The son of biologist T.H. Huxley, Aldous Huxley had a privileged background and was educated at Eton and Oxford despite an eye infection that left him nearly blind.
https://www.amazon.com/Aldous-Huxley-intellectual-Nicholas-Murray/dp/0316854921/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Aldous+Huxley%3A+An+English+Intellectual+Murray&qid=1581920521&s=books&sr=1-1
2002
(This novel elegantly dissects modern romantic mores. Chri...)
This novel elegantly dissects modern romantic mores. Christopher, a successful shop fitter specializing in transforming dilapidated London buildings into swanky bistros, is romantically involved with Carmen, a one-time academic now unhappily employed as a magazine columnist. Jimmy, a millionaire and virtuoso pianist with a laissez-faire attitude to life, seems to offer the fulfillment she seeks. This novel takes the form of Christopher's “memorial” to his former love. Set in London, Nice, the Greek Isles, and Tuscany, it is a beautifully crafted and utterly convincing portrait of adultery and its repercussions. Murray tracks his characters through the worlds of classical music, journalism, fashion modeling, and architecture, and asks where contentment might be found in an increasingly complex yet superficial world.
https://www.amazon.com/Remembering-Carmen-Nicholas-Murray-ebook/dp/B01C27FCXS/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Remembering+Carmen+Murray&qid=1581920663&s=books&sr=1-1
2003
(Nicholas Murray paints a picture of Kafka’s German-speaki...)
Nicholas Murray paints a picture of Kafka’s German-speaking Jewish family and the Prague mercantile bourgeoisie to which they belonged. He describes Kafka’s demanding professional career, his ill health, and the constantly receding prospects of a marriage he craved. He analyzes Kafka’s poor relationship with his father, Hermann, which found its most eloquent expression in Kafka’s story "The Judgement," about a father who condemns his son to death by drowning. And he asserts that the unsettling flavor of Kafka’s books - stories suffused with guilt and frustration - derives from his sense of living in a mysteriously antagonistic world, of being a criminal without having knowingly committed a crime.
https://www.amazon.com/Kafka-Biography-Nicholas-Murray/dp/0300106319/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=Kafka+Nicholas+Murray&qid=1581920796&s=books&sr=1-5
2004
(This is a collection of poetry.)
This is a collection of poetry.
https://www.amazon.com/Narrators-Nicholas-Murray/dp/0952721716/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Narrators+Nicholas+Murray&qid=1581921035&s=books&sr=1-1
2006
(So Spirited a Town is a book about how Liverpool has been...)
So Spirited a Town is a book about how Liverpool has been seen through the eyes of others, but at the same time it is also a personal and moving record of growing up Liverpudlian in the mid-twentieth century: exploring the light-hearted meaning of coming of age "Scouse" while never forgetting that De Quincey’s "many-languaged town" is a cosmopolitan, multiracial seaport with an often tough history of poverty, industrial strife, migration, and, above all, humor.
https://www.amazon.com/So-Spirited-Town-Versions-Liverpool/dp/1846311284/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=So+Spirited+a+Town%3A+Visions+and+Versions+of+Liverpool+Murray&qid=1581922794&s=books&sr=1-2
2008
(In the early 19th century there was a huge surge forward ...)
In the early 19th century there was a huge surge forward in travel of all kinds. Queen Victoria's accession in 1837 came barely a year after John Murray's first guidebook was published. Then in 1838 Bradshaw's famous portable railway timetable appeared. In 1841 Thomas Cook, the world's first travel agent, organized its first tour (from London to Leicester and back by train). The age of mass tourism had arrived. Side by side with it another phenomenon began to develop: exploration to wilder shores and uncharted lands. This is the focus of Nicholas Murray's fascinating book which draws upon the extraordinary stories of Livingstone's journey across Africa; Burton and Speke reaching Lake Tanganyika; John Stuart crossing Australia from south to north; Livingstone reaching the Zambezi; Richard Burton's travels across Arabia, and countless others' extraordinary and brave expeditions.
https://www.amazon.com/Corkscrew-Most-Useful-Travellers-Empire-ebook/dp/B00IA9T360/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=A+Corkscrew+is+Most+Useful%3A+The+Travellers+of+Empire&qid=1581921311&s=books&sr=1-1
2009
(The birthplace of Christian socialism and site of the Bri...)
The birthplace of Christian socialism and site of the British Museum, University College, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, the Friends House, and Great Ormond Street Hospital, Bloomsbury is crammed with history and contemporary decision making. This entertaining and informative book is accompanied by oblique images that present Bloomsbury as it’s never been portrayed before: intimate, contemporary, exploratory, and, occasionally, downright strange.
https://www.amazon.com/Real-Bloomsbury-Wales-Nicholas-Murray/dp/185411526X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Real+Bloomsbury+Murray&qid=1581921880&s=books&sr=1-1
2010
(The poetry that emerged from the trenches of WWI is a rem...)
The poetry that emerged from the trenches of WWI is a remarkable body of work, at once political manifesto and literary beacon for the twentieth century. In this passionate recreation of the lives of the greatest poets to come out of the conflict, Nicholas Murray brilliantly reveals the men themselves as well as the struggle of the artist to live fully and to bear witness in the annihilating squalor of battle. Bringing into sharp focus the human detail of each life, using journals, letters and literary archives, Murray brings to life the men's indissoluble comradeship, their complex sexual mores and their extraordinary courage. Poignant, vivid and unfailingly intelligent, Nicholas Murray's study offers new and finely tuned insight into the - often devastatingly brief - lives of a remarkable generation of men.
https://www.amazon.com/Red-Sweet-Wine-Youth-Brave-ebook/dp/B00GW4P8X2/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Red+Sweet+Wine+of+Youth%3A+The+British+Poets+of+the+First+World+War+Murray&qid=1581921969&s=books&sr=1-1
2010
https://www.amazon.com/Acapulco-Selected-Poems-Nicholas-Murray/dp/0955515718/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=Acapulco%3A+New+and+Selected+Poems+Murray&qid=1581923124&s=books&sr=1-1-fkmr0
2012
(Borders are a huge topic today, part of our zeitgeist. Wh...)
Borders are a huge topic today, part of our zeitgeist. What do they mean? How do we define them? In Crossings Nicholas Murray considers the borders he has confronted geographic, cultural, linguistic, social, class, religious, sexual and reflects on the influence of borders on how we think of ourselves and others, in his typically dynamic style.
https://www.amazon.com/Crossings-Journey-Through-Nicholas-Murray/dp/1781723478/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Crossings%3A+a+journey+through+borders+Nicholas+Murray&qid=1581923698&s=books&sr=1-1
2016
Nicholas Murray was born in 1952 in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom.
Nicholas Murray attended the University of Liverpool.
In 1996 Nicholas Murray was the inaugural Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellow at the British Library Centre for the Book. He has lectured at literary festivals and universities in Britain, Europe, and the United States. From 2003 to 2007 he was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen Mary, University London and from 2010 to 2011 an RLF Fellow at King’s College, London where he later taught seminars on good writing. He has been a tutor in biography, travel-writing and creative non-fiction at the City Literary Institute in London.
He is the author of several literary biographies including lives of Franz Kafka, Aldous Huxley, Bruce Chatwin, Andrew Marvell, and Matthew Arnold. He has written books about Liverpool and Bloomsbury and many others. Murray is a regular contributor of poems, essays, and reviews to a wide range of newspapers and literary magazines.
Nicholas Murray is best known as the author of several literary biographies. His biography of Matthew Arnold was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1997 and his biography of Aldous Huxley was shortlisted for the Marsh Biography Prize in 2003. His biography of Franz Kafka has been translated into nine languages.
(So Spirited a Town is a book about how Liverpool has been...)
2008(The birthplace of Christian socialism and site of the Bri...)
2010(Years of research inform a definitive study of Victorian ...)
1997(Although the century which followed Andrew Marvell's deat...)
2000(A study of the life and work of British writer Chatwin (1...)
1993(The poetry that emerged from the trenches of WWI is a rem...)
2010(Nicholas Murray paints a picture of Kafka’s German-speaki...)
2004(Love in all its many guises is the subject of Nicholas Mu...)
2001(In the early 19th century there was a huge surge forward ...)
2009(Borders are a huge topic today, part of our zeitgeist. Wh...)
2016(This novel elegantly dissects modern romantic mores. Chri...)
2003(This is a collection of poetry.)
2006(The son of biologist T.H. Huxley, Aldous Huxley had a pri...)
2002Nicholas Murray is a member of English PEN and Welsh Academy.
Nicholas Murray is married to Susan Murray.
