Eisler, Benita.Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame. Knopf, Vintage, 1999. 2000. Well-researched, detailed life of the poet and his defiance of the moral codes of his time.
Garrett, Martin.George Gordon, Lord Byron. Oxford University Press, 2001. Introduction to the poet for readers in grade 9 and up.
MacCarthy, Fiona.Byron: Life and Legend. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002. A life of the poet as celebrity, trend-setter, and sexual omnivore.
Trelawney, Edward John.Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author. New York Review of Books, 2000. Reminiscences of a contemporary of the two poets, who followed Byron to Greece in 1822.