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…

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…

is a British antiquarian bookseller, literary translator and composer. He was the first British bookseller to be featured in ‘s series Bright Young Things.   Beattie was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School and the University of Exeter,…

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Robert Darnton is Harvard University’s Carl H. Pforzheimer Professor, Emeritus and University Librarian, Emeritus He was educated at Harvard and Oxford (where he was a Rhodes scholar). After a brief stint as a reporter for The New York Times, he…

Jessie Amaolo is a librarian at the Toronto Public Library responsible for their world-class Arthur Conan Doyle collection. Not surprisingly, much of the collection is devoted to Doyle’s most famous character, Sherlock Holmes. But Conan Doyle…

 George Andreou was appointed director of the Harvard University Press (HUP) in September, 2017, replacing William P. Sisler, who had been in the position for some 27 years. Born in New York, Andreou spent much of his early childhood in Greece….

spent his childhood in Buffalo, New York and “on the sunny beaches of Ontario’s Lake Erie.” After university he worked at the Associated Press as a reporter covering everything from the “disappearance of rural doctors to hog futures, and one…

Greg Gibson is the author of four books, including Gone Boy: A Walkabout about the murder of his eighteen-year-old son Galen. After receiving his BA from Swathmore College in 1967, Greg enlisted in the United States navy and worked as a shipfitter…