author
Lewis Melville
1874–1932
A prolific English biographer and literary figure, he wrote lively studies of writers, royals, and major personalities from British history. Before devoting himself fully to books, he also spent several years on the stage.
6 Audiobooks
Thackeray
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton, Lewis Melville
Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732), Author of "The Beggar's Opera"
by Lewis Melville
Farmer George, Volume 1
by Lewis Melville
Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Her Life and Letters (1689-1762)
by Lewis Melville, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Farmer George, Volume 2
by Lewis Melville
Some Eccentrics & a Woman
by Lewis Melville
About the author
Writing under the pen name Lewis Melville, Lewis Saul Benjamin was born in London in 1874 and was educated privately in England and Germany. He worked as an actor from the late 1890s into the early 1900s, but literature became his lasting career.
He became known as a notably productive author and biographer. His books ranged across literary and historical subjects, and he was especially associated with work on William Makepeace Thackeray, whose writings he also edited. He also wrote about figures such as George III, making a wide stretch of British cultural history accessible to general readers.
Melville died in 1932, but his work still reflects an energetic early-20th-century taste for biography, anecdote, and literary history. Readers who enjoy character-rich nonfiction and classic literary lives may find his books especially appealing.