Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is the celebrated author of many adventure novels, including The Lost World and The Poison Belt, and the creator of the hugely popular detective stories of Sherlock H...

Terence Smith is an award-winning journalist who has been a political reporter, foreign correspondent, editor and television analyst over the course of an almost five-decade career that included Th...

Timothy Sweet is Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of American Literature, West Virginia University and author of American Georgics: Economy and Environment in Early American Literature, also p...

Vanessa Lee is an academic and playwright. She was trained at Trinity College Dublin, the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and the University of Oxford, and has held postdoctoral positions at Linna...