Adam Sisman
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| Born | March 17, 1954 London, England |
| Alma mater | University of Sussex |
| Genre | Biography |
| Notable awards | National Book Critics Circle Award |
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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.[1]
Career[edit]
Adam Sisman has written six books, five of them published in the USA as well as in Britain; and edited or co-edited three volumes of letters.[citation needed] Various of Sisman’s works have been translated into Spanish, Danish, Swedish, Polish, Arabic and Japanese.[citation needed]
His first book, a life of the historian A.J.P Taylor, was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize.[citation needed] Like his subsequent biographies of Hugh Trevor-Roper and John le Carré, this was a work of original scholarship: in each case the first book of its kind on the subject.[citation needed]
His second book, Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and awarded the US National Books Critics Circle prize for biography.[citation needed] His biography of John le Carré was shortlisted for the international PEN prize for biography.[citation needed]
Sisman’s books have been praised by critics as much for their prose as for their research.[citation needed] Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, for example, was reviewed by Philip Hensher as “fabulously entertaining, deft and witty”.[citation needed] Diana Athill found The Friendship “unputdownable”.[citation needed] Noel Malcolm wrote of Sisman’s life of Hugh Trevor-Roper, “This is a fine and serious biography which, on page after page, has made me laugh out loud.[citation needed] A.N. Wilson “embarrassed myself by uncontrollable guffaws” while reading The Professor and the Parson.[citation needed] “Mr. Sisman has an ideal biographical style: inquisitive and open, serious yet not severe,” wrote Dwight Garner in the New York Times: “I’d read him on anyone.”[citation needed]
Sisman has contributed numerous book reviews and feature articles to such newspapers as The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times; and to journals such as The Spectator and the Literary Review.[citation needed] He also writes regularly for Slightly Foxed.[citation needed]
He has been interviewed on radio programmes around the world, including NPR’s “All Things Considered”, BBC’s “Start the Week”, “Front Row”, “Open Book”, “Head to Head”, “Meet the Author”, & “Last Word”, and appeared on television on BBC, Sky Arts, and C-Span.[citation needed] In 2022 he was filmed at length for a forthcoming ITN television series on spying.[citation needed]
Sisman has undertaken two publicity tours of the United States, and often spoken at universities, literary festivals, and other events in Britain and America.[citation needed] In 1998 he was a Visiting Fellow at Hawthornden Castle, near Edinburgh.[citation needed] He has been President of the Johnson Society of Lichfield and the Boswell Society of Auchinleck.[citation needed] In 2013, he was a guest speaker in an all-day event organized by King’s College, London, to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the first meeting between Boswell and Johnson.[citation needed] In 2014, he was a speaker at an international seminar on biography at the International University Mendendez Pelayo (UIMP).[citation needed] More recently he was the guest of honour at the “Adaptation” film festival in County Sligo.[citation needed] In 2019, he spoke at conference in Copenhagen on Patrick Leigh Fermor’s work, attended by the Queen of Denmark, and was later presented to the Queen.[citation needed] In 2022, he gave the annual Carnegie Lecture at the University of St Andrews.[citation needed]
Sisman has been a judge for various literary prizes, including the Whitbread (now known as the Costa) Prize.[citation needed] In 2013, he was one of the assessors distributing awards on behalf of the Society of Authors.[citation needed]
In 2015 Sisman was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the University of St Andrews and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[citation needed] In 2022 he was made an honorary professor at St Andrews.[citation needed]
Personal life[edit]
Sisman was born in London in 1954, the eldest child of David and Marjorie Sisman.[citation needed] He attended St Paul's School and then the University of Sussex, where he read history.[citation needed] After graduating, he worked in book publishing before becoming a writer.[citation needed] In 1979, he married Robyn Sisman, who died in 2016.[citation needed] They have two daughters.[citation needed]
References[edit]
- ↑ "MORE DASHING: AN EVENING WITH ADAM SISMAN AND ARTEMIS COOPER - Hatchards". Hatchards. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
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