Adam Sisman

Adam Sisman is a writer specialising in biography, who has written the lives of A. J. P. Taylor, Hugh Trevor-Roper and John le Carré. His second book, Boswell's Presumptuous Task , won a National Books Critics Circle award. 'Mr Sisman has an ideal biographical style: inquisitive and open, serious yet not severe,' Dwight Garner wrote in the New York Times , 'I'd read him on anyone.' Sisman has also edited several volumes of letters, including two volumes of letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor. In...See more

Adam Sisman is a writer specialising in biography, who has written the lives of A. J. P. Taylor, Hugh Trevor-Roper and John le Carré. His second book, Boswell's Presumptuous Task , won a National Books Critics Circle award. 'Mr Sisman has an ideal biographical style: inquisitive and open, serious yet not severe,' Dwight Garner wrote in the New York Times , 'I'd read him on anyone.' Sisman has also edited several volumes of letters, including two volumes of letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor. In 2019 he published a short book about a con man, The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking . He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews. See less