Adam Sisman

Adam Sisman (born 17 March 1954) is a British writer, editor and biographer. He received the National Book Critics Circle Award for his second book, Boswell's Presumptuous Task. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Professor of the University of St Andrews.

Life Sisman was born in London in 1954, the eldest child of David and Marjorie Sisman. He attended St Paul's School and then the University of Sussex, where he read history. After graduating, he worked in book publishing before becoming a writer. In 1979 he married Robyn Sisman, who died in 2016. They have two daughters.

Works A. J. P. Taylor: A Biography (1994) Boswell's Presumptuous Task (1999) Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Friendship (2006) Hugh Trevor-Roper (2010) John le Carré (2015) The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking (2019) The Secret Life of John le Carré (2023) The Indefatigable Asa Briggs (2025)

As editor Dashing for the Post: Selected Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor (2016) More Dashing: Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor (2018)

As co-editor with Richard Davenport-Hines One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper (2013)