Frances Wilson

Good biographers make the best companions

Frances Wilson’s favourite literary biographies include Father and Son, The Quest for Corvo, and Doctor Johnson and Mr Savage

Portrait of Edmund Gosse by John Singer Sargent. ‘The opening lines of Father and Son are the finest I know,’ says Frances Wilson. Alamy

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