Lives and works

"Since 1998, the Guardian has published a series of in-depth profiles of the most important and popular contemporary novelists, poets and playwrights. Now, for the first time, the very best of these detailed studies are available in one book. They are accompanied by Eamonn McCabe's stunning, especially commissioned portrait photographs." "The writers chosen for Lives and Works range from Chinua Achebe to Tom Wolfe. Each profile is built around an original interview and substantiated by meticulous research into the writer's childhood andfamily life, their education, the early stages of their career and the key works that made their name."--BOOK JACKET.