# Coffee with... Biographies

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The ***Coffee with...* biography** series is a selection of books published by [Duncan Baird](/source/Duncan_Baird_Publishing) between 2007 and 2008 each containing fictional conversations with real famous people, conveying biographical fact. A review of *Coffee with Oscar Wilde* in *The Independent*, for example, explains that in it the author, Wilde's grandson [Merlin Holland](/source/Merlin_Holland), "offers an imaginary and imaginative conversation between himself and his grandfather, set in a contemporary Parisian café". The review described that volume as "an ideal introduction to Wilde's seductive and intellectually electrifying world".[1]

The first set of volumes published in 2007 covered eight figures: [Ernest Hemingway](/source/Ernest_Hemingway), [Gautama Buddha](/source/Gautama_Buddha), [Marilyn Monroe](/source/Marilyn_Monroe), [Michelangelo](/source/Michelangelo), [Mozart](/source/Mozart), [Plato](/source/Plato), [Oscar Wilde](/source/Oscar_Wilde), and [Groucho Marx](/source/Groucho_Marx).[2]

## Works in the series

Title Published Author Foreword by Coffee with Aristotle 2008[3] Jonathan Barnes Julian Barnes Coffee with Dickens 2008[4] Paul Schlicke Peter Ackroyd Coffee with Einstein 2008 Carlos I. Calle Roger Penrose Coffee with Groucho 2007 Simon Louvish Coffee with Hemingway 2007 Kirk Curnutt[5] John Updike Coffee with Isaac Newton 2008 Michael White Bill Bryson Coffee with Marilyn 2007 Yona Zeldis McDonough Coffee with Mark Twain 2008 Fred Kaplan Coffee with Michelangelo 2007 James W. Hall John Julius Norwich Coffee with Mozart 2007 Julian Rushton John Tavener Coffee with Oscar Wilde 2007 Merlin Holland (Wilde's grandson)[1] Simon Callow Coffee with Plato 2007 Donald R. Moor Robert M. Pirsig Coffee with Shakespeare 2008 Stanley Wells Joseph Fiennes Coffee with the Buddha 2007 Joan Duncan Oliver Annie Lennox

## References

1. Wright, Thomas (27 October 2007). ["The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde Vol 4: Criticism, ed Josephine M Guy (Oxford £85); Coffee With Oscar Wilde, by Merlin Holland (Duncan Baird £6.99)"](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-complete-works-of-oscar-wilde-vol-4-criticism-ed-josephine-m-guy-oxford-pound85-coffee-with-397884.html). *The Independent*. Retrieved 6 January 2018.

1. Rogers, Michael (21 June 2007). ["Coffee With Hemingway"](https://web.archive.org/web/20180107174909/http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2007/06/uncategorized/coffee-with-hemingway/). *Library Journal*. Archived from [the original](http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2007/06/uncategorized/coffee-with-hemingway/) on 7 January 2018. Retrieved 7 January 2018.

1. ["Julian Barnes Bibliography"](http://bibliography.julianbarnes.com/coffee-with-aristotle-by-jonathan-barnes-duncan-baird-2008). *JulianBarnes.com*. Retrieved 6 January 2018.

1. ["Peter Ackroyd"](https://www.bookreporter.com/authors/peter-ackroyd/bibliography). *Book Reporter*. Retrieved 7 January 2018.

1. ["Kirk Curnutt"](https://www.hemingwaysociety.org/kirk-curnutt). *The Hemingway Society*. Retrieved 7 January 2018.

## External links

- [*Coffee with...* series](https://www.librarything.com/nseries/34743/Coffee-with) at [LibraryThing](/source/LibraryThing)
- ["Coffee With Hemingway (review)](https://muse.jhu.edu/article/241565)" by Timothy Galow for *The Hemingway Review*

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