JOHN ASHBERY INVENTORY ONE:
BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY, INCLUDING DIARIES, LETTERS,
AND SOME CRITICAL WORKS REGARDING WRITERS’ OEUVRES
Created Spaces: John Ashbery's Textual and Domestic Environments
| SUBJECT | TITLE | AUTHOR | ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTORS |
| Henry Adams | The Education of Henry Adams | Henry Adams | |
| George Ade | George Ade: Warm-Hearted Satirist | Fred C. Kelly | |
| Horatio Alger | The Lost Life of Horatio Alger, Jr. | Gary Scharnhorst | |
| American Eccentrics [140 short biographies] | American Eccentrics | Carl Sifakis | |
| A.R. Ammons | This Is Just Place: The Life and Work of A.R. Ammons [in Epic LXII.3, 2004] | Gilbert, Roger (e); Ammons, Phyllis (s); Rawlings III, Hunter R. (s); Wilson, Edwin G. (s) | |
| Margaret Anderson | Four Lives in Paris | Hugh Ford | |
| The Fiery Fountains | Margaret Anderson | ||
| Newton Arvin | The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal | Barry Werth | |
| John Aubrey | John Aubrey and His Friends | Anthony Powell | |
| W.H. Auden | The Table Talk of W.H. Auden | Alan Ansen | Jenkins, Nicholas (e); Howard, Richard (s) |
| Auden in Love | Dorothy J. Farnan | ||
| Early Auden | Edward Mendelson | ||
| W.H. Auden: A Biography | Humphrey Carpenter | ||
| Mikhail Bakhtin | Mikhail Bakhtin | Katerina Clark | Holquist, Michael (a) |
| Balthus | Vanished Splendors: A Memoir | Balthus | Vircondelet, Alain (e); Ivry, Benjamin (t) |
| Balthus: A Biography | Nicholas Fox Weber | ||
| Rupert Barnaby | Both: A Portrait in Two Parts [on Dwight Ripley and Rupert Barnaby] | Douglas Crase | |
| Djuna Barnes | Djuna: The Life and Times of Djuna Barnes | Nicholas Field | |
| Natalie Barney | The Amazon of Letters | George Wickes | |
| P.T. Barnum | Struggles and Triumphs, or the Life of P.T. Barnum | P.T. Barnum | |
| Sylvia Beach | Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation | Noel Riley Fitch | |
| William Beckford | Beckford: A Biography | Guy Chapman | |
| William Beckford: Composing for Mozart | Timothy Mowl | ||
| Thomas Lovell Beddoes | Thomas Lovell Beddoes: Eccentric and Poet | Royall H. Snow | |
| Ted Berrigan | Ted: A Personal Memoir of Ted Berrigan | Ron Padgett | |
| Elizabeth Bishop | One Art: Elizabeth Bishop: Letters | Elizabeth Bishop | Giroux, Robert (e) |
| Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art | Hall, Donald (e); Schwartz, Lloyd (e); Estess, Sibyl P. (e); Bloom, Harold (s) | ||
| William Blake | Blake’s Apocalypse: A Study in Poetic Argument | Harold Bloom | |
| William Blake: A New Kind of Man | Michael Davis | ||
| Bill Blass | Bare Blass | Bill Blass | Horyn, Cathy (e) |
| Petrus Borel | Petrus Borel: The Lycanthrope, His Life and Times | Enid Starkie | |
| George Borrow | In the Steps of George Borrow | Eileen Bigland | |
| James Boswell | Boswell’s London Journal, 1762-1763 | Samuel Boswell | Pottle, Frederick A. (e); Morley, Christopher (s) |
| Elizabeth Bowen | Elizabeth Bowen: Pictures and Conversations | Elizabeth Bowen | |
| Paul Bowles | An Invisible Spectator | Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno | |
| Claude Bragdon | More Lives Than One | Claude Bragdon | |
| Andre Breton | Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andre Breton | Mark Polizzotti | |
| Romaine Brooks | Between Me and Life | Meryle Secrest | |
| Samuel Butler | The Note Books of Samuel Butler | Samuel Butler | Festing Jones, Henry (e) |
| Samuel Butler’s Notebooks | Samuel Butler | Keynes, Geoffrey (e); Hill, Brian (e) | |
| Lord George Gordon Byron | The Selected Letters of Lord Byron | Lord George Gordon Byron | Barzun, Jacques (e) |
| Elias Canetti | The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a European Childhood | Elias Canetti | Neugroschel, Joachim (t) |
| Constantine Cavafy | Cavafy: A Critical Biography | Robert Liddell | |
| Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | A Selection from the Letters of Lord Chestfield | Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Welsh, Charles (e) |
| Francois Timoleon, abbe de Choisy | Transvestite Memoirs of the Abbe de Choisy | Francois Timoleon, abbe de Choisy | Scott, R.H.F. (t) |
| Jean Cocteau | Cock and Harlequin: Notes Concerning Music | Jean Cocteau | Myers, Rollo H. (t); Picasso, Pablo (i) |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Coleridge: The Damaged Archangel | Norman Fruman | |
| Coleridge: Early Visions | Richard Holmes | ||
| Memoirs and Letters of Sara Coleridge | Sara Coleridge | Coleridge, E. (e) | |
| Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette | Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette | Judith Thurman | |
| Wilkie Collins | Wilkie Collins: A Biography | Kenneth Robinson | |
| Ivy Compton-Burnett | I. Compton-Burnett | Charles Burkhart | |
| Ivy Compton-Burnett: A Memoir | Cicely Greig | ||
| The Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett | Elizabeth Sprigge | ||
| I. Compton-Burnett | Pamela Hansford Johnson | ||
| Cyril Connolly | Cyril Connolly: The Life and Times of England’s Most Controversial Literary Critic | Clive Fisher | |
| Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir | David Pryce-Jones | ||
| John Constable | Memoirs of the Life of John Constable | C.R. Leslie, R.A. | |
| William Corbett | Furthering My Education: A Memoir | William Corbett | |
| Corvo | The Quest for Corvo | A.J.A. Symons | |
| Corvo: Saint or Madman? A New Biography of Frederick William Rolfe | Donald Weeks | ||
| William Cowper | William Cowper: A Critical Life | Maurice J. Quinlan | |
| Hart Crane | Voyager: A Life of Hart Crane | John Unterecker | |
| The Broken Tower | Paul Mariani | ||
| Richard Crashaw | A Study in Baroque Sensibility | Austin Warren | |
| Richard Crashaw and the Spanish Golden Age | R.V. Young | ||
| Harry Crosby | Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby | Geoffrey Wolff | |
| Alphonse Daudet | In the Land of Pain | Alphonse Daudet | Barnes, Julian (e, t) |
| Richard Harding Davis | Richard Harding Davis: His Day | Fairfax Downey | |
| Thomas de Quincey | Thomas de Quincey: His Life and Work | Edward Sackville-West | |
| The Opium Eater | Grevel Lindop | ||
| Thomas de Quincey: A Biography | Horace Ainsworth Eaton | ||
| Thomas de Quincey | Judson S. Lyon | ||
| Sergei Diaghilev | Diaghilev | Richard Buckle | |
| Austin Dobson | Miscellanies | Austin Dobson | |
| Mabel Dodge Luhan | Movers and Shakers: Volume III of Intimate Memories | Mabel Dodge Luhan | |
| Daniel Drew | The Book of Daniel Drew: The Inside Story of the First Great Wall Street Speculator | Bouck White | |
| Joseph Duveen | Duveen | S.N. Behrman | Steinberg, Saul (i) |
| T.S. Eliot | T.S. Eliot | Peter Ackroyd | |
| "Four Quartets’’ Rehearsed | Raymond Preston | ||
| John Evelyn | The Diary of John Evelyn [2 volumes] | Rhys, Ernest (e) | |
| Edward FitzGerald | FitzGerald: Selected Works [and letters] | Edward FitzGerald | Richardson, Joanna (e) |
| Edward Fitzgerald | Letters of Edward Fitzgerald | Edward Fitzgerald, Cohen, J.M. (e) | |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Crazy Sundays: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hollywood | Aaron Latham | |
| Zelda Fitzgerald | Zelda | Nancy Milford | |
| Janet Flanner | Paris Journal, 1944-1965 | Janet Flanner | Shawn, William (e) |
| Genet | Brenda Wineapple | ||
| Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939 | Janet Flanner | Drutman, Irving (e) | |
| Gustave Flaubert | Letters | Gustave Flaubert | Rumbold, Richard (e); Cohen, J.M. (t) |
| Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle | Fontenelle’s Art of Dialogue | John W. Cosentini | |
| E.M. Forster | E.M. Forster | Lionel Trilling | |
| Morton Fullerton | Mysteries of Paris: The Quest for Morton Fullerton | Marion Mainwaring | Howard, Richard (s) |
| David Gascoyne | Short Survey of Surrealism | David Gascoyne | |
| Carlo Goldoni | Memoirs of Carlo Goldoni | Carlo Goldoni | Black, John (t); Drake, William A. (e) |
| Carlo Gozzi | Carlo Gozzi: Useless Memoirs | Carlo Gozzi | Symonds, John Addington (t); Horne, Philip (e) |
| Christian Dietrich Grabbe | Christian Dietrich Grabbe | Roy C. Cowen | |
| Duncan Grant | Duncan Grant and the Bloomsbury Group | Douglas Blair Turnbaugh | |
| Robert Graves | Robert Graves | Martin Seymour-Smith | |
| Robert Graves: Life on the Edge | Miranda Seymour | ||
| Robert Graves: The Assault Heroic, 1895-1926 | Richard Perceval Graves | ||
| Robert Graves: The Years with Laura Riding, 1926-1940 | Richard Perceval Graves | ||
| Henry Green | Pack My Bag | Henry Green | |
| Henry Green and the Writing of His Generation | Michael North | ||
| Hetty Green | The Witch of Wall Street | Boyden Sparkes | Moore, Samuel Taylor (a) |
| Julian Green | Memories of Happy Days | Julian Green | |
| Geoffrey Grigson | Recollections: Mainly of Writers and Artists | Geoffrey Grigson | > |
| Peggy Guggenheim | Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addict | Peggy Guggenheim | Vidal, Gore (s); Barr Jr., Alfred H. (s) |
| Wilson Harris | Wilson Harris and the Caribbean Novel | Michael Gilkes | |
| The Bookstore in America: Borders [in The Review of Contemporary Fiction XVII.2, Summer 1997] | Adler, Joyce Sparer (e: Wilson Harris section) | ||
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Hawthorne | Henry James Jr. | |
| Martin Heidegger | Martin Heidegger | George Steiner | |
| Heidegger’s Philosophy: A Guide to His Basic Thought | Magda King | ||
| Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Heliogabalus | The Amazing Emperor Heliogabalus | J. Stuart Hay | |
| Adolf Hitler | Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis | Ian Kershaw | |
| Therese Humbert | La Grande Therese: The Greatest Scandal of the Century | Hilary Spurling | |
| Christopher Isherwood | Diaries, Volume 1, 1939-1960 | Christopher Isherwood | Bucknell, Katherine (e) |
| Edmond Jabes | Lavish Absence | Rosmarie Waldrop | |
| Max Jacob | Max Jacob and the Poetics of Cubism | Gerald Kamber | |
| Henry James | Henry James: Autobiography | Henry James | Dupee, F.W. (e) |
| Henry James | Leon Edel | ||
| Henry James: Man and Author | Pelham Edgar | ||
| Henry James | Rebecca West | ||
| The Question of Henry James | Dupee, F.W. (e) | ||
| William James | William James: His Life and Thought | Gerald E. Myers | |
| The Letters of William James | William James | James, Henry (e) | |
| William and Henry James | A Small Boy and Others | Henry James | |
| King James I and VI | The Wisest Fool in Christendom | William McElwee | |
| Sarah Orne Jewett | Sarah Orne Jewett | Francis O. Matthiessen | |
| Samuel Johson | The Life of Samuel Johnson | James Boswell | |
| Matthew Josephson | Life Among the Surrealists: A Memoir | Matthew Josephson | |
| James Joyce | James Joyce | Harry Levin | |
| A Skeleton Key to Finnegan’s Wake | Joseph Campbell | Robinson, Henry Morton (a) | |
| James Joyce: New and Revised Edition | Richard Ellmann | ||
| The Finnegan’s Wake Experience | Roland McHugh | ||
| A Reader’s Guide to James Joyce | William York Tindall | ||
| Franz Kafka | The Nightmare of Reason | Ernst Pawel | |
| David Kidd | Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China | David Kidd | |
| Soren Kierkegaard | Kierkegaard: A Kind of Poet | Louis Mackey | |
| Francis Kilvert | Journal of a Country Curate: Selections from the Diary of Francis Kilvert, 1870-79 | Francis Kilvert | Wait, Peter (e); Stephens, Tim (i) |
| Victor Klemperer | I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945 | Victor Klemperer | |
| Madame de La Tour du Pin | Memoirs of Madame de La Tour du Pin | Madame La Tour du Pin | Harcourt, Felice (e) |
| Walter Savage Landor | Walter Savage Landor [Writers and Their Work126] | G. Rostrevor Hamilton | |
| Landor’s Poetry | Robert Pinsky | ||
| Landor: Poetry and Prose [with essays by Ernest de Selincourt, Walter Raleigh, Oliver Elton] | Chambers, E.K. (s) | ||
| Ring Lardner | Ring Lardner | Donald Elder | |
| The Story of a Wonder Man: Being the Autobiography of Ring Lardner | Ring Lardner | Freeman, Margaret (i) | |
| Edward Lear | Edward Lear: The Life of a Wanderer | Vivien Noakes | |
| Vernon Lee | Vernon Lee: Violet Paget, 1856-1935 | Peter Gunn | |
| Edwin Lefevre | The Making of a Stockbroker | Edwin Lefevre | |
| John Lehmann | The Whispering Gallery: Autobiography I | John Lehmann | |
| Giacomo Leopardi | Leopardi: A Study in Solitude | Iris Origo | |
| Ada Leverson | The Sphinx and Her Circle | Violet Wyndham | |
| Claude Levi-Strauss | Claude Levi-Strauss | Edmund Leach | |
| Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | Lichtenberg: A Doctrine of Scattered Occasions | J.P. Stern | |
| Beatrice Lillie | Beatrice Lillie: The Funniest Woman in the World | Bruce Laffey | |
| Mina Loy | Becoming Modern | Carolyn Burke | |
| Ern Malley | The Ern Malley Affair | Michael Heyward | |
| Osip Mandelstam | Mandelstam | Clarence Brown | |
| Norman Manea | The Hooligan’s Return | Norman Manea | |
| Sir Andrew Marbot | Marbot | Wolfgang Hildesheimer | |
| Henri and Pierre Matisse | Matisse: Father and Son | John Russell | |
| Vladimir Mayakovsky | Mayakovsky and His Circle | Viktor Shklovsky | |
| Robert McAlmon | Being Geniuses Together, 1920-1930 | Robert McAlmon | Boyle, Kay (a, e) |
| Jacques-Louis Menetra | Journal of My Life | Jacques-Louis Menetra | Goldhammer, Arthur (t); Roche, Daniel (e) |
| Gian Carlo Menotti | Menotti | John Gruen | |
| George Meredith | The Ordeal of George Meredith | Lionel Stevenson | |
| Maurice Merleau-Ponty | Merleau-Ponty: Existentialist of the Social World | Albert Rabil, Jr. | |
| James Merrill | Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson | Alison Lurie | |
| A Different Person: A Memoir | James Merrill | ||
| Nancy Mitford | The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family | Mary S. Lovell | |
| The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh | Nancy Mitford | Waugh, Evelyn (a); Mosley, Charlotte (e) | |
| Adrienne Monnier | The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier | Adrienne Monnier | McDougall, Richard (e, t) |
| Eduard Morike | Eduard Morike: The Man and the Poet | Margaret Mare | |
| Lady Ottoline Morrell | Memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell | Lady Ottoline Morrell | Gathorne-Hardy, Robert (e) |
| Ottoline | Sandra Jobson Darroch | ||
| Robert Musil | Diaries: Robert Musil, 1899-1941 | Robert Musil | Payne, Philip (e, t); Mirsky, Mark (e) |
| John Bernard Myers | Tracking the Marvelous: A Life in the New York Art World | John Bernard Myers | |
| Vladimir Nabokov | Speak, Memory | Vladimir Nabokov | |
| Carrie Nation | Vessel of Wrath: The Life and Times of Carrie Nation | Robert Lewis Taylor | |
| Reinhold Niebuhr | Reinhold Niebuhr | Richard Fox | |
| Vaslav Nijinsky | Nijinsky | Richard Buckle | |
| The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky | Vaslav Nijinsky | Acocella, Joan (e) | |
| Charles Nodier | |||
| Charles Nodier: Pilot of Romanticism | A. Richard Oliver | ||
| Charles Nodier | Hilda Nelson | ||
| Harold Norse | Memoirs of a Bastard Angel: A Fifty-Year Literary and Erotic Odyssey | Harold Norse | Baldwin, James (s) |
| Frank O’Hara | In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O’Hara and American Art | Russell Ferguson | |
| City Poet | Brad Gooch | ||
| Margaret Oliphant | The Equivocal Virtue: Mrs. Oliphant and the Victorian Literary Market Place | Vineta and Robert A. Colby | |
| La Belle Otero | La Belle Otero | Arthur H. Lewis | |
| Samuel Palmer | The Parting Light: Selected Writings | Samuel Palmer | Abley, Mark (e) |
| Paracelsus | Paracelsus: Magic into Science | Henry M. Pachter | |
| Boris Pasternak | I Remember: Sketch for an Autobiography | Boris Pasternak | Magarshack, David (t) |
| Walter Pater | Walter Pater | Ferris Greenslet | |
| The Case of Walter Pater | Michael Levey | ||
| Coventry Patmore | Coventry Patmore | Edmund Gosse | |
| Thomas Love Peacock | Thomas Love Peacock [Writers and Their Work 156] | J.I.M. Stewart | |
| Pearsall Smith | The Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women | Barbara Strachey | |
| Samuel Pepys | The Diary of Samuel Pepys, M.A.F.R.S.: Volume I | Samuel Pepys | |
| Samuel Pepys | Stephen Coote | ||
| Georges Perec | Georges Perec, Felipe Alfau [in The Review of Contemporary Fiction XIII.1, Spring 1993] | Bellos, David (e: Perec section) | |
| Saint-John Perse | Saint-John Perse: A Study of His Poetry | Arthur Knodel | |
| Eliot Porter | Summer Island: Penobscot Country | Eliot Porter | Brower, David (e) |
| Beatrix Potter | The Tale of Beatrix Potter: A Biography | Margaret Lane | |
| Ezra Pound | Ezra Pound | Charles Norman | |
| The Poetic Achievement of Ezra Pound | Michael Alexander | ||
| Reading the Cantos: A Study of Meaning in Ezra Pound | Noel Stock | ||
| Anthony Powell | Journals, 1990-1992 | Anthony Powell | |
| The Memoirs of Anthony Powell, Messengers of Day, Volume 2 | Anthony Powell | ||
| The Memoirs of Anthony Powell, Volume 3, Faces in My Time | Anthony Powell | ||
| To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell, Volume 1, Infants of the Spring | Anthony Powell | ||
| To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell, Volume 4, Strangers Are All Gone | Anthony Powell | ||
| Anthony Powell: A Life | Michael Barber | ||
| Dawn Powell | The Diaries of Dawn Powell, 1931-1965 | Dawn Powell | Page, Tim (e) |
| Dawn Powell: A Biography | Tim Page | ||
| John Cowper Powys | Petrushka and the Dancer: The Diaries of John Cowper Powys, 1929-1939 | John Cowper Powys | Crissdottir, Morine (e) |
| Prester John | The Realm of Prester John | Robert Silverberg | |
| Marcel Proust | Marcel Proust: A Biography, Volume 1 | George D. Painter | |
| Marcel Proust | William C. Carter | ||
| Barbara Pym | A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters | Barbara Pym | Holt, Hazel (e); Pym, Hilary (e) |
| Raymond Queneau | The Lyric Encyclopedia of Raymond Queneau | Jane Alison Hale | |
| Gwen Raverat | Period Piece | Gwen Raverat | |
| Man Ray: American Artist | Neil Baldwin | ||
| Restif De La Bretonne | Restif’s Novels; or, An Autobiography in Search of an Author | Charles A. Porter | |
| Jean Rhys | The Letters of Jean Rhys | Jean Rhys | Wyndham, Francis (e); Melly, Diana (e) |
| Laura Riding | In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding | Deborah Baker | |
| Pursuit of Truth | Joyce Piell Wexler | ||
| Arthur Rimbaud | Arthur Rimbaud | Benjamin Ivry | |
| Arthur Rimbaud | Enid Starkie | ||
| The Poetry of Rimbaud | Robert Greer Cohn | ||
| Christina Rossetti | Christina Rossetti | Lona Mosk Packer | |
| Raymond Roussel | Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel | Michel Foucault | Ruas, Charles (t); Ashbery, John (s) |
| John Ruskin | Ruskin’s Maze: Mastery and Madness In His Art | Jay Fellows | |
| Praeterita: The Autobiography of John Ruskin | John Ruskin | ||
| William Ingraham Russell | The Romance and Tragedy of a Widely Known Business Man of New York | William Ingraham Russell | |
| Mark Rutherford | The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford | Mark Rutherford | Shapcott, Reuben (e) |
| Count of Saint Germain | The Count of Saint Germain | Isabel Cooper-Oakley | |
| Margarett Sargent | The White Blackbird | Honor Moore | |
| James Schuyler | The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O’Hara | James Schuyler | Corbett, William (e) |
| Two Journals | James Schuyler | Park, Darragh (e) | |
| Delmore Schwartz | Letters of Delmore Schwartz | Delmore Schwartz | Phillips, Robert (e) |
| Portrait of Delmore: Journals and Notes of Delmore Schwartz, 1939-1959 | Delmore Schwartz | Pollet, Elizabeth (e) | |
| Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet | James Atlas | ||
| Marguerite Sechehaye | Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl | Marguerite Sechehaye | Rubin-Rabson, Grace (t); Conroy, Frank (s) |
| Misia Sert | Misia | Arthur Gold | Fizdale, Robert (a) |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | Shelley: The Pursuit | Richard Holmes | |
| John Skelton | John Skelton | Maurice Pollet | |
| Stephen Spender | Stephen Spender: A Portrait with Background | Hugh Davis | |
| Stephen Spender: Journals, 1939-1983 | Stephen Spender | Goldsmith, John (e) | |
| Gertrude Stein | A History of Having a Great Many Times Not Continued to Be Friends: The Correspondence between Mabel Dodge and Gertrude Stein, 1911-1934 | Gertrude Stein | Everett, Patricia R. (e) |
| Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company | James R. Mellow | ||
| The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and Her World | John Malcolm Brinnin | ||
| Wallace Stevens | Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate | Harold Bloom | |
| Parts of a World: Wallace Stevens Remembered | Peter Brazeau | ||
| Wallace Stevens: Musing the Obscure | Ronald Sukenick | ||
| Letters of Wallace Stevens | Wallace Stevens | Stevens, Holly (e) | |
| August Strindberg | August Strindberg | Olof Lagercrantz | Hollo, Anselm (t) |
| Italo Svevo | Italo Svevo: The Man and the Writer | P.N. Furbank | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne | At the Pines: Swinburne and Watts-Dunton in Putney | Mollie Panter-Downs | |
| Stephen Tennant | Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant | Philip Hoar | |
| Flora Thompson | Lark Rise To Candleford | Flora Thompson | |
| Virgil Thomson | Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle | Anthony Tommasini | |
| Alice B. Toklas | Letters of Alice B. Toklas | Alice B. Toklas | Burns, Edward (e) |
| What Is Remembered | Alice B. Toklas | ||
| The Biography of Alice B. Toklas | Linda Simon | ||
| Anthony Trollope | The Trollopes: The Chronicle of a Writing Family | Lucy and Richard Poate Stebbins | |
| J.M.W. Turner | Standing in the Sun | Anthony Bailey | |
| Tristan Tzara | Tristan Tzara | Elmer Peterson | |
| Paul Verlaine | Paul Verlaine and the Decadents, 1882-90 | Philip Stephan | |
| Francis Bacon Verulam | The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Francis Ld. Verulam, Viscount St. Alban | Francis Bacon Verulam | |
| Diana Vreeland | Diana Vreeland | Eleanor Dwight | |
| Robert Walser | Beneficent Irrelevancies: Robert Walser and The Robber [in The Hollins Critic XL.1, February 2003] | Tom Whalen | |
| Mary Augusta Ward | Mrs. Humphry Ward | Enid Huws Jones | |
| Andy Warhol | Andy Warhol | Wayne Koestenbaum | |
| Sylvia Townsend Warner | Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography | Harman, Claire | |
| John Waters | Crackpot: The Obsessions | John Waters | |
| Denton Welch | Maiden Voyage | Denton Welch | |
| Denton Welch: The Making of a Writer | Michael De-la-Noy | ||
| Edith Wharton | Henry James and Edith Wharton: Letters, 1900-1915 | Edith Wharton | James, Henry (a); Powers, Lyall H. (e) |
| John Wheelwright | The Revolutionary Imagination: The Poetry and Politics of John Wheelwright and Sherry Mangan | Alan M. Wald | |
| Walt Whitman | Masculine Landscapes: Walt Whitman and the Homoerotic Text | Byrne R.S. Fone | |
| Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative | Emory Holloway | ||
| Oscar Wilde | Oscar Wilde | Richard Ellmann | |
| Emlyn Williams | Emlyn Williams: A Life | James Harding | |
| Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor | The Last of the Duchess | Caroline Blackwood | |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: An Introduction | H.O. Mounce | |
| P.G. Wodehouse | Bring on the Girls!: The Improbable Story of Our Life in Musical Comedy | P.G. Wodehouse | Bolton, Guy (a) |
| Cornell Woolrich | Cornell Woolrich: First You Dream, Then You Die | Francis M. Nevins Jr. | |
| Charles Frederick Worth | Worth: Father of Haute Couture | Diana de Marly | |
| W.B. Yeats | Autobiographies: Reveries over Childhood and Youth and the Trembling of the Veil | W.B. Yeats | |
| Sir Basil Zaharoff | Peddler of Death: The Life and Times of Sir Basil Zaharoff | Donald McCormick | |
| Zaharoff: High Priest of War | Guiles Davenport |