Peter Parker will be joining us on November 3rd, 2021. We look forward to his presentation on Christopher Isherwood. He is the author of two books about the First World War, The Old Lie and The Last Veteran, and biographies of J.R. Ackerley and Christopher Isherwood (2004). Housman Country (2016) was a cultural history of A.E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad, and his most recent publication is A Little Book of Latin for Gardeners (2018). 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) and is an advisory editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He has written about people, books, art, architecture and gardening for a large number of newspapers and magazines. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997.