Nicholas Murray is a freelance author and journalist based in Wales and London. Born in Liverpool he is the author of several literary biographies including lives of Franz Kafka, Aldous Huxley, Bruce Chatwin, Andrew Marvell and Matthew Arnold, two collections of poems, and two novels. His biography of Matthew Arnold was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1997 and his biography of Aldous Huxley was shortlisted for the Marsh Biography Prize in 2003. His biography of Franz Kafka has been translated into nine languages. He is a regular contributor of poems, essays and reviews to a wide range of newspapers and literary magazines In 1996 he was the inaugural Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellow at the British Library Centre for the Book and he is a Fellow of the Welsh Academy and a member of English PEN. He has lectured at literary festivals and universities in Britain, Europe and the United States. From 2003-2007 he was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen Mary, University London and again at King’s College, London in 2010-11 and a tutor in biography and creative non-fiction at the City Literary Institute in London. So Spirited a Town: Visions and Versions of Liverpool was published by Liverpool University Press in November 2007 and a book about the Victorian Travellers, A Corkscrew is Most Useful was published by Little, Brown in April 2008. In November 2010 his book about Bloomsbury in the “Real” series was published: Real Bloomsbury (Seren). His book about the British poets of the First World War, The Red Sweet Wine of Youth (Little, Brown) appeared in February 2011 and his verse broadside against the British coalition government, Get Real! also appeared in February 2011. His most recent book is Acapulco: New and Selected Poems (Melos. He runs a small poetry imprint, Rack Press, and writes the Bibliophilicblogger literary blog
website: www.nicholas.murray.co.uk
blog: www.bibliophilicblogger.blogspot.com
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twitter: @NicholasGMurray
To view a sample of Nicholas Murray’s published poetry click here.
[PS: The National Library of Australia seems to have quite a full list of some of my articles.]
