Biographer

Professor Peter F. Alexander was educated at the universities of the Witwatersrand, Leeds and Cambridge. He is the author of biographies on South African writers Roy Campbell, William Plomer and Alan Paton. He has also edited a four-volume edition of all Campbell's writing. His latest book is a biography of the Australian poet Les Murray. Currently Professor of English at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, he is married to the Brontë scholar Christine Alexander, and they have two children.