Kathleen Riley completed a DPhil in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford where she later held a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Now a full-time writer, she specializes in classical reception, biography, and theatre history. She is the author of Nigel Hawthorne on Stage and The Reception and Performance of Euripides' Herakles: Reasoning Madness. She is also co-editor of Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity and, most recently, a contributor to Seamus Heaney and the Classics: Bann Valley Muses. Her book The Astaires: Fred and Adele has been optioned for a feature film currently in development.
Riley (an independent scholar with a doctorate in classics) writes poignantly about exile, longing, homesickness, homecomings, and homecomings that never happen ... the entire book is fascinating. * K. B. Hannel, CHOICE * inflected with an awareness of today's social and political issues * Rhiannon Easterbrook, Greece & Rome *