Adam Sisman

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 Professor of the University of St Andrews.

Books in order of publication:

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)

The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking (2019)

The Secret Life of John le Carré (2023)