Patrick Hamilton: A life

by Sean French

First edition. The biography of Hamilton, author of several successful broadway plays and novels. Despite his success he lived a very tragic life, cursed with alcoholism and he died at fifty-eight of alcohol-related illness. Includes numerous references to Michael Sadleir, Hamilton's publisher at Constable, and to Martha Smith, Sadleir's assistant. Illustrated with several black and white photographs. Indexed. xvi , 328 pages, with 8 pages of plates. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..

Genres: Biography

258 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1993

About the author

Half of the husband/wife writing team of Nicci French. He studied English Literature at Oxford University. He has been a film critic and biographer.

Nicci Gerrard and Sean French also write separately.

Reviews

[Charlotte · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nothing I like more than reading a biography of a writer whose work I love. This one didn't disappoint. I'll always remember the brothers' egg suppers.

[Ella · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hamilton is an interesting figure and his life very obviously fed into his literary work so seeing snippets of his letters and the intertwining of fact and fiction was highly interesting. But overall French’s writing style fell a little flat for me.

[Justine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well-written biography, clarifying the connections between Hamilton's life and his fiction and plays.