Books by Denis Sampson (Independent scholar)

Denis Sampson has published widely on Irish Literature, beginning with the highly esteemed Outstaring Nature's Eye: The Fiction of John McGahern. His interest in McGahern's work led to many subsequent articles and reviews and culminated in Young John McGahern: Becoming a Novelist, a study of a decisive decade in the novelist's life. Between these two books, he also wrote about other 20th-Century Irish writers, including a biography, Brian Moore: The Chameleon Novelist. His interest in fiction and literary biography continues, and he has now enlarged his field of interest in The Found Voice: Writers' Beginnings to study figures such as V.S. Naipaul, Alice Munro, J.M. Coetzee and others. He has also written about literary memoirs, and has published personal essays in many literary journals; his memoir A Migrant Heart appeared in 2014.