Jeremy Lewis
After leaving Trinity College, Dublin, in 1965, Jeremy Lewis spent much of his career in publishing, and was a director of Chatto & Windus for ten years. He has been a freelance writer and editor since 1989. He was the Deputy Editor of the London Magazine from 1990 to 1994; he has been the Commissioning Editor of the Oldie since 1997, and the Editor-at-Large of the Literary Review since 2004. He has written two volumes of autobiography, Playing for Time (Collins, 1987) and Kindred Spirits (HarperCollins, 1995), and edited The Chatto Book of Office Life (Chatto, 1992): his biographies include Cyril Connolly: A Life (Cape, 1997), Tobias Smollett (Cape, 2003) and Penguin Special: The Life and Times of Allen Lane (Viking, 2005).
He is currently working on a book about the Greene family, and Graham Greene’s siblings and first cousins in particular, commissioned by Jonathan Cape for delivery in December 2008, and Grub Street Irregular, a further volume of memoirs, with particular emphasis on the perils and pleasures of freelance literary life, due for delivery to HarperCollins in June 2007.
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