The Unexpected Professor - An Oxford Life in Books ( Man Booker Prize Committee Chairperson)

Published by Faber & Faber, 2015, softcover, index, 360 pages, condition: as new.

John Carey is a British literary critic, and emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. He is known for his anti-elitist views on high culture, as expounded in several books. He has twice chaired the Booker Prize committee and chaired the judging panel for the first Man Booker International Prize. 

John Carey is an Emeritus Professor at Oxford University. His books include studies of Donne, Dickens and Thackeray, The Intellectuals and the Masses, What Good Are the Arts? and a life of William Golding.