Creative Lives and Works

Creative Lives and Works is a collection of interviews conducted by one of England's leading social anthropologists and historians, Alan Macfarlane. The current volume is on four of England's foremost literary critics. The book will be of enormous value to those interested in Literature, History and Culture Studies.

Alan Macfarlane was born in Shillong, India, in 1941 and educated at the Dragon School, Sedbergh School, Oxford and London Universities where he received two Master's degrees and two doctorates. He is the author of over forty books, including The Origins of English Individualism (1978) and Letters to Lily: On How the World Works (2005). He has worked in England, Nepal, Japan and China as both an historian and anthropologist. He was elected to the British Academy in 1986 and is now Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a Life Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Professor Macfarlane received the Huxley Memorial Medal, the highest honour of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 2012.

Introduction PART I Frank Kermode - In conversation with Alan Macfarlane PART II George Steiner - In conversation with Alan Macfarlane PART III Christopher Ricks - In conversation with Alan Macfarlane PART IV Gillian Beer - In conversation with Alan Macfarlane