Praise for David Jones Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize "While his life was hard and never entirely free of post-traumatic stress disorder, David Jones now has--thanks to Thomas Dilworth--a biography worthy of his originality and genius." -- The Washington Post "Nobody alive knows more about David Jones than Thomas Dilworth." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "It's ever so rarely you get a perfect biography, a marvellous match of subject and writer--but Thomas Dilworth's biography of David Jones is just that." -- Evening Standard "An overdue biography . [Jones's] achievements as a Modernist writer rank him alongside T. S. Eliot and James Joyce." -- The Economist "Lavishly illustrated and wonderfully well written.

Dilworth is that rare thing: a scholar who has the capacity for great clarity." --Rachel Cooke, The Guardian "Dilworth's book is a splendid example of biography-making . Dilworth has researched his man properly; and as importantly, he has selected and shaped the fruits of his research into a gracefully written and fitly proportioned whole . I cannot recommend it highly enough, both as an adjunct to an appreciation of Jones's literary and visual achievements, and as a literary achievement in its own right." -- Notre Dame Review "As Professor Dilworth makes the backgrounds of Jones's writing clearer and more comprehensible, he confirms the power, depth, and relevance of his work as a whole." --W.S. Merwin "Dilworth is deft at tracing two of the essential ingredients in Jones's life and work.

[A] wonderful book."" -- The Spectator "Dilworth is a brilliant describer and analyst of the art; his descriptions would make individual works vivid to the reader even if they weren't reproduced in this richly illustrated book." -- The Guardian "Thomas Dilworth's welcome (and superbly produced) biography will clearly be the point of reference for Jones's life for a long time to come." -- New Statesman "Dilworth's narrative sympathetically illuminates the workings of a troubled, original mind, its interplay with mid-20th century English intellectual life, and its continuing resonance." -- Financial Times.