Zachary Leader is Pro­fes­sor of Eng­lish Lit­er­a­ture at Roe­hamp­ton Uni­ver­si­ty in Great Britain, and a Fel­low of the Roy­al Soci­ety of Lit­er­a­ture. He has also taught at Cal­tech and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Chica­go. He was edu­cat­ed at North­west­ern, Cam­bridge, and Har­vard uni­ver­si­ties, and is the author of Read­ing Blake’s Songs, Writer’s Block, Revi­sion and Roman­tic Author­ship, and The Life of Kings­ley Amis, a final­ist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. He has edit­ed Roman­tic Peri­od Writ­ings 1798 – 1832 (with Ian Hay­wood), The Let­ters of Kings­ley Amis, On Mod­ern British Fic­tion, The Move­ment Recon­sid­ered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie, and Their Con­tem­po­raries (Oxford UP, 2009), and the Oxford Authors Shel­ley (with Michael O’Neill). He lives in London.