Winner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Longlisted for the 2023 Plutarch Award
A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of 2022
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Named a Best Book of the Year byThe New Yorker, Times Literary
Supplement, and Literary Hub
From the standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a
sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love,
sex, and death.
Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher
and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing.
He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, a member of Parliament -
and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. He
converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a
sixteen-year-old girl without her father's consent, struggled to feed a family of
ten children, and was often (...)
Katherine Rundell is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where she works
on Renaissance literature. Her bestselling books for children have been
translated into more than thirty languages and have won multiple awards.
Rundell is also the author of a book for adults, Why You Should Read
Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise . She has written
for, among others, the London Review of Books, The Times Literary
Supplement, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times,
largely about books, though sometimes about animals, night climbing, and
tightrope walking.
Picador
On Sale: Sep 5/23
5.38 x 8.25 • 352 pages
33 Black-and-White Illustrations Throughout / Further
Reading, Notes, Index
9781250872500 • $24.00 • pb
Biography / Literary