Dr. Alan Walker has written extensively on Franz Liszt, and his definitive three volume biography of Liszt, Franz Liszt, published by Knopf, received awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in Biography and the Royal Philharmonic Society Book Award. His writing has appeared in journals such as The Musical Quarterly, Times Literary Supplement and Times Educational Supplement. A Professor Emeritus at McMaster University since 1995, Dr. Walker was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1986 and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary in 2012.
