
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. His books include Becoming Dickens, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, The Story of Alice, which was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, and Metamorphosis. He writes regularly for publications including The Times, the Literary Review and the Spectator. Radio and television appearances include Start the Week and The Culture Show and he has also acted as the historical consultant on TV adaptations of Jane Eyre, Emma, Great Expectations, the BBC drama series Dickensian and both of the Enola Holmes feature films for Netflix. He has judged the Booker Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize, and in 2015 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Books by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
A joyful and enlightening masterclass in how reading attentively can change our lives
A major new biography of Charles Dickens, by the award-winning author of Becoming Dickens and The Story of Alice
The definitive biography of Lewis Carroll, his child-muse Alice Liddell, and the creation of Alice in Wonderland
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD