Christopher Bigsby is an award-winning novelist, biographer and literary critic who, with Malcolm Bradbury, has written plays for BBC radio and television. He also worked for many years as a presenter for BBC Radio 4 and for twenty-eight years ran the Arthur Miller Centre (now Institute) International Literary Festival, from which seven volumes have been published as the “Writers in Conversation” series. He is an emeritus professor at the University of East Anglia (UEA)