Pessoa: A Biography is a biography of Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa by Richard Zenith. It was published in 2021 in New York by Liveright Publishing Corporation. It was also published as Pessoa: An Experimental Life in 2021 in London by Allen Lane.
The book was reviewed by Brinda Bose in Telegraph India, [1] Parul Sehgal and Benjamin Moser in The New York Times, [2] [3] David Sexton in The Sunday Times, [4] Peter Conrad in The Guardian, [5] and Anahid Nersessian in The New York Review of Books. [6]
The book was selected as one of the best biographies of 2021 by Kirkus Reviews, [7] and as one of The New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2021. [8] It was a finalist for 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. [9]
Pessoa: A Biography is a biography of Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa by Richard Zenith. It was published in 2021 in New York by Liveright Publishing Corporation. It was also published as Pessoa: An Experimental Life in 2021 in London by Allen Lane.
The book was reviewed by Brinda Bose in Telegraph India, [1] Parul Sehgal and Benjamin Moser in The New York Times, [2] [3] David Sexton in The Sunday Times, [4] Peter Conrad in The Guardian, [5] and Anahid Nersessian in The New York Review of Books. [6]
The book was selected as one of the best biographies of 2021 by Kirkus Reviews, [7] and as one of The New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2021. [8] It was a finalist for 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. [9]