Zachary Leader

Zachary Leader is professor of English literature at the Uni­versity of Roehampton in London. In addi­tion to teaching at Roehampton, he has held visiting profes­sorships at Caltech and the University of Chicago. He was educated at Northwestern University; Trinity College, Cam­bridge; and Harvard University; and is the author of Reading Blake’s Songs, Writer’s Block, Revision and Romantic Authorship, The Life of Kingsley Amis, a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, and The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune 1915–1964. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and General Editor of The Oxford History of Life-Writing, a seven-volume series. His latest book, The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife 1965–2005, is available from Knopf.