Peter Parker

Peter Parker is the author of biographies of J.R. Ackerley and Christopher Isherwood, The Old Lie, The Last Veteran, Housman Country and A Little Book of Latin for Gardeners. He has edited A Reader's Guide to the Twentieth-Century Novel, Reader's Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers, and a two-volume anthology, Some Men In London: Queer Life 1945-1959 and 1960-1967. He is an advisory editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He wrote introduction to G.F. Green's In the Making and contributed essays to Britten’s Century and Fifty Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read. He has written about people, books, art, architecture and gardening for a wide variety of newspapers and magazines.