EDWARD WILSON-LEE
Agent: Isobel Dixon
Assistant: Finlay Charlesworth
Biography: Edward Wilson-Lee is 1596 Fellow in English at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he teaches Renaissance Literature. After growing up in the US, Kenya, and Switzerland, he studied in London, New York, Oxford and Cambridge and lived in Zimbabwe, Mexico and the United States in between. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and two sons.
He writes on books, travel and history, and he has been awarded numerous Fellowships to support his work, including from the British Academy and the Leverhulme Foundation. He has published three books, SHAKESPEARE IN SWAHILILAND, THE CATALOGUE OF SHIPWRECKED BOOKS and A HISTORY OF WATER. The latter has been shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2023.
‘A masterly literary detective adventure...a compelling read’ - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
One of The Bookseller's Top 6 Shakespeare picks for 2016 - 'a striking literary debut'