Pessoa: A Biography

FINALIST • 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY Longlisted for the 2021 Plutarch Award (Biographers International Organization) New York Times • Times Critics Top Books of 2021 Best Books of the Year: Spectator, New Statesman, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly Like Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce, Richard Zenith’s Pessoa immortalizes the life of one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers. Nearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) remains one of ou