{"id":11566,"count":46,"description":"Welcome to our 'literary figures' section, where we collect interviews focused on particular authors with eminent scholars, biographers and writers.\r\n\r\nWe have Columbia Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro on Shakespeare's life<\/a>, while Oxford Fellow Emma Smith<\/a> and Ren\u00e9 Weis<\/a> each share their selection for the best of his plays. If you're after classic authors of the Victorian era, we have a surplus of interviews on nineteenth-century literary figures, from Philip Davis on George Eliot<\/a> to Catherine Brown on D H Lawrence<\/a> to Jenny Hartley on Charles Dickens<\/a>.\r\n\r\nAlongside these offerings are other bedside table classics such as the best books of P G Wodehouse<\/a>, Evelyn Waugh<\/a>, Agatha Christie<\/a>, Franz Kafka<\/a>, Dostoevsky<\/a> and Muriel Spark<\/a>. It's never too late to begin reading an author you always missed out on\u2014nor is one ever too old to return to old favourites from childhood. With interviews on literary figures as old as Dante<\/a> and as new as John Berger<\/a>, an eager literary reader can't go wrong.\r\n\r\nSylvia Plath Books<\/a> | Franz Kafka Books<\/a> | Stephen King Books<\/a> | Marcel Proust Books<\/a> | George Orwell Books<\/a> |","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/fiction\/literary-figures\/","name":"Literary Figures","slug":"literary-figures","taxonomy":"category","parent":11186,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11186"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=11566"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=11566"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=11566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}