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Stuart Kells

Stuart Kells
Stuart Kells is an author and book-trade historian. His 2015 history of Penguin Books, Penguin and the Lane Brothers, won the prestigious Ashurst Business Literature Prize. His critically acclaimed biography of Kay Craddock—the first female president of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers—Rare, was published in 2011. His most recent book is Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature. An authority on rare books, Stuart has written and published on many aspects of print culture and the book world. He has a PhD from Monash University, and lives in Melbourne with his wife, Fiona, and daughters, Thea and Charlotte.


The Ongoing Obsession with Shakespeare’s True Identity

Baconians, Oxfordians, Marlovians, Derbyites, Rutlanders, Groupists. Oh My.
April 23, 2019  By Stuart Kells
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Writing About the Oldest Oral Library in Australia

How Bruce Chatwin Popularized—and Misrepresented—the Arrernte People
April 12, 2018  By Stuart Kells
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