Peter Parker

Peter Parker was born in Herefordshire and educated in the Malverns, Dorset and London. He is the author of The Old Lie: The Great War and the Public-School Ethos (1987), a highly acclaimed biography of J. R. Ackerley (1989) and the critically acclaimed biography, Isherwood: A Life (2004). He writes about books and gardening for a wide variety of newspapers and magazines and lives in London's East End.