April 1998 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Biography | Memoirs & Letters | Fiction Biography Diarmaid MacCulloch Maybe It’s Because He Was a Londoner The Life of Thomas More By Peter Ackroyd LR Kathryn Hughes She Gave Him a Son, He Gave Her Syphilis Death By Fame: A Life of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria By Andrew Sinclair LR Nicholas Murray Rare Case of a Poet who Doubted His Own Genius A Gift Imprisoned: The Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold By Ian Hamilton LR Frederic Raphael Not a Great Writer Lawrence Durrell: A Biography By Ian S MacNiven LR Frederic Raphael Not a Great Writer but a Bit of a Word Painter Lawrence Durrell: A Biography By Ian S MacNiven LR Memoirs & Letters Rhoda Koenig The Curtains Were Lavender Taffeta Truman Capote By George Plimpton LR Niall Ferguson Glory in His Garden Edmund de Rothschild: A Gilt-Edged Life, A Memoir By Edmund de Rothschild LR Fiction David Milner Why Will and Marcus Hit it Off so Well About a Boy By Nick Hornby LR
Kathryn Hughes She Gave Him a Son, He Gave Her Syphilis Death By Fame: A Life of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria By Andrew Sinclair LR
Nicholas Murray Rare Case of a Poet who Doubted His Own Genius A Gift Imprisoned: The Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold By Ian Hamilton LR
Frederic Raphael Not a Great Writer but a Bit of a Word Painter Lawrence Durrell: A Biography By Ian S MacNiven LR
Niall Ferguson Glory in His Garden Edmund de Rothschild: A Gilt-Edged Life, A Memoir By Edmund de Rothschild LR
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