Apr 26, 2020
David Gilmour is a
Canadian novelist and former television journalist and film
critic.
Born in London, Ontario, Gilmour later moved to Toronto for schooling. He is a graduate of Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto. In 1980 he became managing editor of the Toronto International Film Festival, a post he...
Apr 20, 2020
Paul Wright was Editor
of the UMass Press from 1988 to 2006. He was Executive Editor
of the Book Series, “Studies in Print Culture and the History of
the Book,” from 1994–2006. From 1985 to 1988 he was Assistant
to the Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Boston. Prior
to that he served as a Free-Lance...
Apr 13, 2020
Stephanie Burt is a literary critic and poet who is Professor of English at Harvard University and a transgender activist. The New York Times has called her "one of the most influential poetry critics of [her] generation".
Burt grew up near Washington, D.C. She has published four collections of poetry and many works of...
Apr 6, 2020
Simon Beattie is a
British antiquarian bookseller, literary translator and composer.
He was the first British bookseller to be featured in
Fine Books & Collections Magazine's series Bright Young
Things.
Beattie was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School and the University of Exeter, where he took a double first in...
Apr 1, 2020
The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books contains more than 80,000 items. The nucleus of the collection, which has a cut-off date of 1910, was donated to the Toronto Public Library in 1946 by a British librarian from Derbyshire, Edgar Osborne. Unable to get any English libraries to meet his conditions - to...