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Michael Wood is the author of Stendhal, America in the Movies, Garcia Marquez- One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Magician's Doubts- Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction (also available in Pimlico). He writes film and literary criticism for the London Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review and other publications. He studied Modern Languages at St John's College, Cambridge, where he was later a Fellow. He taught for along time at Columbia University in New York and then at the University of Exeter. He is currently Professor of English at Princeton University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
A triumph of imaginative reading over received opinion; I was sad to finish it -- Candia McWilliam * Independent on Sunday * One of the very few critical books I know can be read for pure pleasure as well as enlightenment -- John Banville * Irish Times * Wood's book is an invitation to dialogue...so full of memorable and wise formulations that one is tempted to quote and go on quoting. -- Gabriel Josopovici * T.L.S *
