Clive James

Clive James (1939—2019), author of the best-selling Cultural Amnesia and Poetry Notebook, was an Officer of the Order of Australia and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. His writing appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic.

Clive James

Clive James (1939—2019), author of the best-selling Cultural Amnesia and Poetry Notebook, was an Officer of the Order of Australia and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. His writing appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic.

Awards

Winner — New York Times Notable Selection, 2007

Winner — New York Times Notable Selection, 2008

Books by Clive James

  • The Divine Comedy

    Dante Alighieri, Clive James

    Paperback, 2014

    “Under James’s uncanny touch, seven long centuries drop away, and the great poem is startlingly fresh and new.”—Stephen Greenblatt
  • The Divine Comedy

    Dante Alighieri, Clive James

    E Book, 2013

    “Under James’s uncanny touch, seven long centuries drop away, and the great poem is startlingly fresh and new.”—Stephen Greenblatt
  • Inferno

    Dante Alighieri, Clive James

    E Book, 2015

    Dante's immortal vision of Hell shines "as it never did before in English verse" (Edward Mendelson) in Clive James's new translation of Inferno.
  • Inferno

    Dante Alighieri, Clive James

    Paperback, 2021

    Dante's immortal vision of Hell shines "as it never did before in English verse" (Edward Mendelson) in Clive James's new translation of Inferno.