The Coffee with... biography series is a selection of books published by Duncan Baird 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, "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".
The first set of volumes published in 2007 covered eight figures: Ernest Hemingway, Gautama Buddha, Marilyn Monroe, Michelangelo, Mozart, Plato, Oscar Wilde, and Groucho Marx.
Works in the series
+TitlePublishedAuthorForeword byCoffee with Aristotle 2008 Jonathan Barnes Julian Barnes Coffee with Dickens 2008 Paul Schlicke Peter AckroydCoffee with Einstein 2008 Carlos I. Calle Roger Penrose Coffee with Groucho 2007 Simon Louvish Coffee with Hemingway 2007 Kirk Curnutt John UpdikeCoffee with Isaac Newton 2008 Michael White Bill BrysonCoffee with Marilyn 2007 Yona Zeldis McDonough Coffee with Mark Twain 2008 Fred Kaplan Coffee with Michelangelo 2007 James W. Hall John Julius NorwichCoffee with Mozart 2007 Julian Rushton John TavenerCoffee with Oscar Wilde 2007 Merlin Holland (Wilde's grandson) Simon CallowCoffee with Plato 2007 Donald R. Moor Robert M. PirsigCoffee with Shakespeare 2008 Stanley Wells Joseph FiennesCoffee with the Buddha 2007 Joan Duncan Oliver Annie Lennox
References
External links Coffee with... series at LibraryThing "Coffee With Hemingway (review)" by Timothy Galow for The Hemingway Review