Pessoa: A Biography is a biography of Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa by Richard Zenith. It was published in 2021 in New York by Liveright Publishing Corporation. It was also published as Pessoa: An Experimental Life in 2021 in London by Allen Lane.
Critical reception The book was reviewed by Brinda Bose in Telegraph India, Parul Sehgal and Benjamin Moser in The New York Times,Moser, Benjamin (2021-07-13). "Fernando Pessoa: Office Worker, Occultist, Galaxy of Writers". The New York Times. David Sexton in The Sunday Times, Peter Conrad in The Guardian,Conrad, Peter (2021-08-02). "Pessoa: An Experimental Life review – a portrait with bags of personality". The Guardian. and Anahid Nersessian in The New York Review of Books.Nersessian, Anahid (2021-10-07). "The Escape Artist". The New York Review of Books.
Accolades The book was selected as one of the best biographies of 2021 by Kirkus Reviews, and as one of The New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2021. It was a finalist for 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
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