Robert McCrum

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Robert McCrum is a literary Editor of The Observer and former editor at Faber & Faber.

He is a child of Michael William McCrum. He writes regular reviews and is also co-author of The Story of English (McCrum, Robert, William Cran, and Robert MacNeil. New York: Elisabeth Sifton, 1986) and P G. Wodehouse: A Life (McCrum, Robert, W. W. Norton & Company, 2004).

In 1995 he suffered a massive stroke. The devastating experience and his recovery is chronicled in “My Year Off”. He had only been married for two months and the book includes diary entries made by his new wife.