Deze auteur is een meester in biografieën, die zich verdiept in de complexe levens en werken van betekenisvolle figuren. Haar schrijven kenmerkt zich door diep psychologisch inzicht en nauwgezet historisch onderzoek. Door middel van meeslepende verhalen en scherpe analyses belicht ze niet alleen de levens van haar onderwerpen, maar ook de bredere culturele en maatschappelijke contexten van hun tijd. Lezers ontdekken niet alleen feiten, maar ook de diepe essentie en impact van de individuen die ze portretteert.
In 1962, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, and James Watson received the Nobel Prize, but it was Rosalind Franklin's data and photographs of DNA that led to their discovery. Brenda Maddox tells a powerful story of a remarkably single-minded, forthright, and tempestuous young woman who, at the age of fifteen, decided she was going to be a scientist, but who was airbrushed out of the greatest scientific discovery of the twentieth century.
"Many know the public Yeats but few have managed to penetrate to the inner man, or to explore the relationship with his much younger wife, George." "George's Ghosts looks at Yeats through the lens of the Automatic Script, the trance-like communication with supposed spirits that George conducted during the early years of their marriage. The full transcript of this intense occult adventure was not available until 1992 and remains virtually untouched by biographers. Maddox finds the Script to have been a ghostly form of family planning - as well as one of the most ingenious ploys ever used by a wife to take her husband's mind off another woman."--BOOK JACKET
Das glänzende Debüt einer neuen Stimme in der Fiktion, dies ist die lustige, unerwartete Geschichte eines glatzköpfigen, zunehmend dicken 28-Jährigen, der den Großteil seiner Zwanziger damit verbracht hat, eine Karriere im quasi-schwarzen Markt der Zeitarbeitsagenturen Londons zu vermeiden. Nun findet er sich nicht nur ohne Job, sondern ernsthaft ohne Perspektiven wieder. Wie er dieses Problem löst, ist die Handlung, die diesen witzigen, scharfsinnigen und fesselnden Erstroman vorantreibt.
Nora was twenty years old and penniless when she eloped from Ireland with Joyce, a man of brilliant promise but few accomplishments whom she'd known but three months. She remained with him until his death thirty-seven years later, bearing him two children, governing a succession of unruly households in Trieste, Paris, and Zurich, holding him and the family together through the force of her own formidable pluck. Most importantly for Joyce's work, Nora served as his "portable Ireland," his living link to the homeland he used as the basis for his masterpieces.