Peter Parker

PETER PARKER is the author of two books about the First World War, The Old Lie (1987) and The Last Veteran (2009), and has written biographies of J.R. Ackerley (1989) and Christopher Isherwood (2004). He edited (and wrote much of) A Reader’s Guide to the Twentieth-Century Novel (1995) and A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers (1996). He was an associate editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004), with responsibility for modern literature, and remains an advisory editor in the same field. An animated film of Ackerley’s My Dog Tulip, for which he collaborated on the script, was released in 2010. His edition of G.F. Green’s 1952 novel In the Making was published as a Penguin Modern Classic in 2012, and he was a contributor to Britten’s Century (2013). He writes regularly for the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator, the TLS and Hortus, and is currently working on a book about A.E. Housman and Englishness.