facts. ... A strength of Honan's book is his probing examination of the relationships between Marlowe's day-to-day life and his writings. ... [I]t is an elegantly written study which must now stand as the best overall biography of one of our most fascinating writers." Selected works Browning's Characters: A Study in Poetic Technique, Yale University Press, 1961 (with William Irvine) The Book, the Ring, & the Poet: A Biography of Robert Browning, McGraw-Hill, 1974 Matthew Arnold: A Life, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981 Jane Austen: Her Life, Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1987 Honan, Park (ed.) The Beats: An Anthology of "Beat" Writing, Dent, 1987 Authors' Lives: On Literary Biography and the Arts of Language (collection of essays), St. Martins Press, 1990 Shakespeare: A Life, Oxford University Press 1998 Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy, Oxford University Press 2005 Notes External links Extensive 1999 interview of Honan by The New York Times "The Austen Brothers and Sisters", 1988 essay by Honan Review of Honan's Shakespeare book by The New York Times Review of Honan's Arnold book in the London Review of Books holds archival material on Honan. Academics of the University of Leeds Alumni of the University of London American academics of English literature Brown University faculty Academics of the University of Birmingham Shakespearean scholars Deep Springs College alumni American biographers American male biographers Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature 1928 births 2014 deaths American people of English descent American people of Irish descent