Adam Sisman

Adam Sisman is an award-winning writer, author of Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and winner of the US National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and biographer of A. J. P. Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper. He lives in Bristol.

Spying is Lying: How David Cornwell Became John Le Carré

Adam Sisman on the True Identity and Backstory of the Pseudonymous Spy Novelist

October 30, 2023 By Adam Sisman

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The Oxford Professor Who Kept Tabs on His Student—Who Turned Out To Be a Conman

The (Mostly Unknowable) Life of a Fraud

February 3, 2020 By Adam Sisman

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