Grevel Lindop

Grevel Lindop is former Professor of Romantic Studies at Manchester University, and now works as a freelance writer. He has published six collections of poems, and won the Poetry London prize in 2005.

His prose books include an acclaimed biography, The Opium-Eater: A Life of Thomas De Quincey (1981, third edition Weidenfeld 1993), and the popular Literary Guide to the Lake District, which won Lakeland Book of the Year in 1993 and was reissued in 2005 in a fully revised and updated edition. He has edited work by Thomas Chatterton and Robert Graves, as well as the monumental 21-volume collected edition of De Quincey’s writings.

A veteran writer and reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement, he has contributed to a wide range of literary magazines on literature, art, theatre and environmental topics and has published short stories in the London Magazine and elsewhere.

He is currently writing Charles Williams: The Last Magician, a biography of the poet, novelist, occultist and friend of JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis, for Oxford University Press.

An enthusiastic traveller, he is also systematically exploring the music, dance and urban clubs of Cuba, Mexico and other Latin American countries, indulging his limitless appetite for salsa.

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