ADAM SISMAN
Adam Sisman was educated at St Paul’s School and Sussex University. He worked full time as a publisher’s editor for 14 years, and has since undertaken a number of freelance projects for publishers, as well as ghost writing several books. From 1989 to 2000 he was a partner in a copywriting business. He has acted as a judge for various prizes, including the Whitbread Awards. In 2003 he was elected President of the Johnson Society of Lichfield, and he is currently President of the Boswell Society of Auchinleck. He is an occasional broadcaster on radio and television, and a frequent reviewer, most recently for the Sunday Telegraph, the Los Angeles Times and the Literary Review.
In 1994 he published his first book, A.J.P. Taylor: A Biography, followed in 2000 by Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, which was awarded the National Books Critics Circle Award for biography, and (like the biography of A.J.P. Taylor) shortlisted for several other prizes. He has recently completed a book about the friendship between Wordsworth and Coleridge, due for publication in October 2006.
Adam Sisman is represented by Andrew Wylie.
