The Dictionary of Biographical Quotation of British and American Subjects (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980)


Notes on this edition: 

Julian Barnes (Contributor). The Dictionary of Biographical Quotation of British and American Subjects. Edited by Richard Kenin and Justin Wintle. London and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. Pp. 860 + [2]. 25.1 x 19.2 cm. ISBN: 0710088590.

The first edition of this volume was published in 1978.

While specific entries are not identified as being researched by Julian Barnes, he is listed as one of the contributors to this volume. The work for this volume was done in the years before the publication of Barnes’s first novel (Metroland, 1980). Other contributors include John Baxter and Jonathan Keates amongst others.

According to Julian Barnes, researchers were paid 50p for each quotation that made it into the final publication. Barnes can’t remember at this distance the exact entries he contributed, but based on the payments he received the number was substantial (in the hundreds).

“The Bitter Lemon Days” | Another Round at the Pillars (Cargo Press, 1999)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “The Bitter Lemon Days.” Another Round at the Pillars: Essays, Poems & Reflections on Ian Hamilton. Edited by David Harsent. Cornwall: Cargo Press, 1999. Pp. 151 + [5]. 24 x 15.3 cm. ISBN: 1899980067.

From the jacket: “For his sixtieth birthday friends of the distinguished poet, critic and biographer Ian Hamilton, have gathered to offer an international festschrift to honour his writings and the remarkable influence he has exerted on his generation.”

Julian Barnes’s essay appears on pp. 15-21. It was also published in The Guardian (17 April 1999). Other authors contributing to the collection include:

Blake Morrison
A Alvarez
Andrew Motion
Harold Pinter
Peter Dale
Hugo Williams
Douglas Dunn
Karl Miller
Alan Jenkins
David Harsent
Christopher Reid
Ian McEwan
Craig Raine
Dan Jacobson
Simon Gray
Peter Porter
Michael Hofmann
John Fuller
Charles Osborne
Michael Fried
Clive James
Colin Falck

“Mrs Thather Remembers” | Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Essays (Allen Lane, 1999)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Mrs Thather Remembers.” Selected and with a foreword by Ian Hamilton. The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Essays. London & New York: Allen Lane & The Penguin Press, 1999. Pp. 554 [555] + [5]. 24 x 16 cm.

Julian Barnes’s essay appears on pp. 543-[555]. The dust jacket of this example lists sale prices for both the U.K. and Canadian, but not the U.S. The essay was published in Barnes’s collection Letters from London.

“Days I’ll Remember” | Changing Times (Michael O’Mara, 2000)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Days I’ll Remember” in Alison Pressley. Changing Times: Being Young in Britain in the ’60s. London: Michael O’Mara, 2000. Pp. 112. 24.6 x 19 cm. ISBN: 1854795783.

Julian Barnes’s brief contribution appears on p. 65.

“Gardeners’ World” (Zoetrope, Winter 2010)


Notes on this item: Julian Barnes. “Gardeners’ World.” Zoetrope: All-Story, vol. 14, no. 4, Winter 2010: 50-65.

Julian Barnes’s short story was later published in Pulse.

Writers on Artists (DK Publishing, 2001)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Edgar Degas.” Writers on Artists. London / New York: DK Publishing, 2001. Pp. 352. 28.2 x 22.3 cm. ISBN: 0789480352.

The book is published in association with Modern Painters. Other authors contributing to this collection include David Hockney, Howard Jacobson, Will Self, Craig Raine, David Bowie, Andrew Motion, Nick Hornby, A. S. Byatt, Seamus Heaney, and others.

Julian Barnes’s essay on Edgar Degas appears on pp. 158-165. The dust jacket matches the illustrated binding, as pictured.

Foot: les 100 photos (EPA, 2002; French)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. ‘[Untitled].” Foot: les 100 photos. Paris: EPA, 2002. Pp. 223 + [1]. 34.7 x 24.6 cm. ISBN: 2851205811. (French).

Edited by Benoît Heimermann avec la collaboration de Céline Ruissel.

Julian Barnes contributes a short piece on a photograph of footballer George Best.

“Words for H. H.” | Howard Hodgkin (Gagosian, 2014)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Howard Hodgkin: Words for H. H.” in Howard Hodgkin. [Paris]: Gagosian Paris, 2014. Pp. 111 + [1]. 27.1 x 31.2 cm. ISBN: 9781938748028.

The book includes contributions by Barnes, James Fenton, Susan Sontag, and Jeff Wall.

Julian Barnes’s essay appears in both French (pp. 83-89) and English (pp. [91]-96. The French translation was by Jean-Pierre Aoustin.

Barnes’s essay originally appeared in Howard Hodgkin (Gagosian Gallery, 2003).

Make It New: The Rise of Modernism (University of Texas Press, 2003)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “The Immovable Feast of Modernism” in Make It New: The Rise of Modernism. Kurt Heinzelman, general editor. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. 155 + [1]. 25.3 x 30.5 cm. ISBN: 0292702841.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Make It New: The Rise of Modernism by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, October 21, 2003 to March 7, 2004.

 

“U” | Hockney’s Alphabet (Random House, 1991)


Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “U” in Hockney’s Alphabet. Edited by Stephen Spender. New York: Random House, 1991. Pp. 92 + [4]. 39.4 x 23.3 cm. ISBN: 067941066x.

Drawings by David Hockney with written contributions by Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro, John Updike, Susan Sontag, Seamus Heaney, Craig Raine, and others. Each author addresses a letter from the alphabet.

Julian Barnes’s contribution appears on page 71-72.

“The proceeds from the sale of this book will benefit the American Friends of AIDS Crisis Trust and be used to support AIDS research and services to people with AIDS.”

The book was also published in deluxe and special editions.