The author of more than forty books, Terry Eagleton has taught at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Manchester. He lives in Dublin.
His mode is that of a jocular anthropologist, pint in hand, chattily offering up his opinions. -- David Wolf - The New Republic Terry Eagleton has a gift for the kind of generalizations that at first appear outrageous but seem, on reflection, annoyingly perceptive. Were I one of the expressive Americans he describes, I'd call this book awesome; as a constipated Brit, I'm inclined to say that it is not at all bad. -- Henry Hitchings, author, The Secret Life of Words [Eagleton is] clearly a writer who enjoys being a provocateur: there's something to argue with on pretty much every page of Across the Pond, and usually something downright hilarious, too. Great stuff...Terry Eagleton is a funny man. -- Geoff Nicholson - Los Angeles Review of Books Incisive and honest... Eagleton's contribution to the persistent subgenre of Toquevillian analysis: the European curmudgeon's critical, ultimately appreciative and, in Eagleton's case, loving guide to the wacky Yanks and their nation. -- Michael Washburn - Boston Globe