Park Honan is Emeritus Professor at the School of English, University of Leeds. He has written biographies of Jane Austen, Matthew Arnold, and Robert Browning. His most recent biography, Shakespeare: A Life, was hailed as "the best available biography" (Boston Globe) and "impressively researched"
(New York Times), and The Baltimore Sun wrote "If you have never read a book about William Shakespeare, please read this one."
