Kelli Roberts asked Samantha Silva:

I loved 'Mr. Dickens'! What biographies of Dickens do you recommend?

Samantha Silva Hi Kelli. There are so many good biographies, but the Peter Ackroyd book is essential reading -- I went back to it often. And also found the Claire Tomalin biography (Charles Dickens: A Life) to be very useful. I didn't read Jane Smiley's book, but that would be next on my list. My Dickens library is vast and varied, but the Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens was my bible -- the most marked up, underlined, post-it-noted book I own. So glad you enjoyed the novel!

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