BARRY UNSWORTH

Date of Birth: August 10, 1930
Birthplace: Durham, England
Education: University of Manchester, B.A., 1951.
Profession: Lecturer in English, various institutions, 1960-; Writer in residence, Liverpool University, 1984-85; Writer in residence, Lund University, Sweden, 1988; Novelist.

The idea is so radiant and the conception so exciting, and somewhere the shadow falls between the idea and the execution....I always feel that I did the best I could, I just didn't do proper justice to it.
-Barry Unsworth, Wall Street Journal

Few contemporary writers have been as bold in mining history's provocative recesses for their fiction.
-Amy Gamerman, Wall Street Journal

Mr. Unsworth has the art to enter the sensibility of a period—its attitudes, assumptions and turns of phrase—so convincingly that he is able to suggest subtle yet essential parallels between an earlier era and our own.
-Janet Burroway, New York Times Book Review