Nicholas Murray
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Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, 2003-07
Advisory Fellow, 2008/09
Fellow at King's College London, 2010/11
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Nicholas Murray is a freelance author based in Wales and London. Born in Liverpool, he is the author of several literary biographies including lives of Bruce Chatwin, Franz Kafka, Aldous Huxley, Andrew Marvell and Matthew Arnold, two collections of poems, and two novels. He is a regular contributor of poems, essays and reviews to newspapers and literary magazines. He is a member of the Welsh Academy and of English PEN's Writers in Translation Committee. He has lectured at literary festivals and universities in Britain, Europe and the United States and runs the poetry imprint Rack Press. So Spirited a Town: Visions and Versions of Liverpool was published by Liverpool University Press in February 2008 and a book about the Victorian travellers was published by Little, Brown in April 2008. His next book, Real Bloomsbury, will be published by Seren in November 2010 and his book about the poets of the First World War, The Red Sweet Wine of Youth, will be published by Little, Brown in February 2011. Nick writes the Bibliophilic Blogger literary blog.
Website:
http://www.nicholasmurray.co.uk
