Richard Davenport-Hines was born in 1953 and lives in London.

"A refreshing and convincing all-round portrait of the greatest English poet of this century, warts and all" Independent on Sunday "Davenport-Hines has done Auden the honour of trying to see him whole - as a youth, in the 1930s, in wartime and in that extended afterwards" Times Literary Supplement "Literary biography at its best" Sunday Telegraph

Richard Davenport-Hines was born in 1953 and lives in London.

"A refreshing and convincing all-round portrait of the greatest English poet of this century, warts and all" Independent on Sunday "Davenport-Hines has done Auden the honour of trying to see him whole - as a youth, in the 1930s, in wartime and in that extended afterwards" Times Literary Supplement "Literary biography at its best" Sunday Telegraph