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David Attwell

David Attwell
David Attwell is a graduate of the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa, and completed an MA in African literary theory and criticism at the University of Cape Town, where his supervisor was J. M. Coetzee. He holds a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently a professor at the University of York. He lives in England.


How J.M. Coetzee wrote His Booker Prize-Winning Book

On the Many False Starts and Revisions to Disgrace
September 29, 2016  By David Attwell
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