Dr A.C. Grayling is Reader at Birkbeck College, University of London, and is a Fellow of St. Anne's College, Oxford. He is the author of numerous philosophical books and is a literary journalist and broadcaster. He has written an acclaimed biography of William Hazlitt, The Quarrel of the Age (W&N, 2002) and a play, On Religion.
Grayling has that wonderful gift that all good teachers have, the ability to simplify Herald