Andrew Lycett, Author . Overlook $35 (434p) ISBN 978-1-58567-541-8
Published in England last year to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Anglo-Welsh poet's death at age 39 in New York, London Times
contributor Lycett's new biography has the advantage that Thomas's protective widow, Caitlin, is...
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Andrew Lycett, Author . Free Press $30 (559p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7523-1
Lycett, biographer of Rudyard Kipling and Dylan Thomas, turns his attention to the father of detective stories in this enjoyable if densely packed biography. From his early years in Edinburgh to his life at boarding school, Conan Doyle developed a...
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Andrew Lycett. St. Martin’s, $29.99 (496p) ISBN 978-1-250-03798-5
Exhaustive and compulsively readable, Lycett’s latest (first published in the U.K. in 1995) is billed as the first full-length Fleming biography to be published in America. Biographer Lycett (Dylan Thomas: A New Life) calls his subject “an immature...
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