Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Notes on Sontag | 2009 | Colm Tóibín | Buy |
| 2 | On Whitman | 2010 | Colm Tóibín | Buy |
| 3 | On Conan Doyle | 2011 | Colm Tóibín | Buy |
| 4 | What W. H. Auden Can Do for You | 2013 | Colm Tóibín | Buy |
| 5 | On Elizabeth Bishop | 2015 | Colm Tóibín | Buy |
| 6 | On Empson | 2017 | Colm Tóibín | Buy |
| 7 | On Henry Miller: Or, How to Be an Anarchist | 2018 | Colm Tóibín | Buy |
| 8 | On Seamus Heaney | 2020 | Colm Tóibín | Buy |
| 9 | On Tim Winton | 2022 | Colm Tóibín | N/A |
The Writers on Writers series pairs notable authors with literary subjects they admire. Each book offers a personal essay-length treatment of the subject’s life and work. The format is compact and opinionated, less like an academic study and more like one writer explaining why another writer matters to them.
Colm Toibin has contributed several entries to the series, writing about figures as different as Walt Whitman and Arthur Conan Doyle. Other contributors to the series include various contemporary authors, each bringing their own perspective to a writer who has influenced them.