I own a sizable collection of literary biographies. These are some of my favourites:

• Auden by Richard Davenport-Hines
• The Secret Life of Aphra Behn by Janet Todd
• Louise Bogan A Portrait by Elizabeth Frank
• Truman Capote by George Plimpton
• Secrets of the Flesh A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
• My Wars Are Laid Away in Books The Life of Emily Dickinson by Alfred Habegger
• Herself, Defined H.D. and Her World by Barbara Guest
• George Eliot A Life by Rosemary Ashton

Do you have a favourite?