British Library – Tom Overton Biography book launch

John Berger wondering © Libby Hall

In 2009, John Berger gave his archive to British Library […] Tom Overton got to know Berger as he catalogued this archive, and exchanges between them were a journey of discovery and rediscovery. Now, in an extraordinary new book, From Life (2026, Allen Lane Penguin) Tom Overton draws on this experience and a vast and previously unseen trove of material to explore John Berger’s life and work one hundred years after his birth.

Thursday 3rd of SEPTEMBER, book launch at the British Library with Tom Overton and Gareth Evans.

More info
British Library website
More Info
From Life Penguin website
John Berger From Life biography by Tom Overton © Allen Pane Penguin, 2026
© Allen Lane Penguin, 2026
2015 John Berger and Tom Overton © Amarjit Chandan
2015 John Berger and Tom Overton © Amarjit Chandan

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JOHN BERGER

Storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, painter and critic, John Berger (1926-2017) is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. Solo or in collaboration with Jean Mohr for example, he published more than 30 titles, the Booker Prize winning novel G and the best-seller Ways of Seeing. He has also published articles in the most important newspapers around the world.

He used to work and live in Quincy, a small French peasant community, the setting for his trilogy Into their Labours.

Painters, cineasts, writers, dancers, curators have been and are still inspired by his work, this website is a window on these TODAY creations.