Clive James

Clive James was born in 1939 in Sydney, Australia, and was educated at Sydney University and Cambridge. James has written and produced a number of highly acclaimed television documentaries, including, for PBS, Fame in the 20th Century, and he is the host of two popular British television programs,
The Clive James Show and the Postcard series. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and The Observer, and has published three volumes of memoirs, six books of poetry, nine collections of essays, and a travel book. The Silver Castle is his fourth novel. James lives in Cambridge, England.