Nicholas Murray is a freelance author based in Wales and London. Born in
Liverpool he is the author of several literary biographies including lives of Franz
Kafka, Aldous Huxley, Andrew Marvell and Matthew Arnold, two collections of
poems, and two novels. 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
member of the Welsh Academy and 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 is currently
an RLF Advisory Fellow. 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 was published by Little, Brown in April 2008. 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