Zachary Leader

Zachary Leader (born 1946) is a professor of English Literature at Roehampton University. He was an undergraduate at Northwestern University, and later pursued graduate study both at Trinity College, Cambridge and at Harvard University. Though born in the U.S. and remaining an American citizen, Leader has lived and worked for over thirty years in the UK. His best-known works are probably The Letters of Kingsley Amis, which he edited and published in 2001, and The Life of Kingsley Amis (2006).

List of publications

• Reading Blake's Songs, (London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul), 259pp. (1981)
• Writer's Block, (London and Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press), 320pp. (1991)
• Revision and Romantic Authorship, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996; pbk, 1999), 354pp. (1996)
• Romantic Period Writings 1798-1832: An Anthology, co-edited with Ian Haywood (London and Boston: Routledge, pbk), 254pp. (1999)
• The Letters of Kingsley Amis, edited by Z. Leader, London: HarperCollins, 2000; New York: Talk/Miramax, 1208pp. (2001)
• On Modern British Fiction, edited by Z. Leader, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 319pp. (2002)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, co-edited by Z. Leader and M. O'Neill, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 845pp. (2003)
• The Life of Kingsley Amis, Hardcover, New York: Random House, 1008 pp. (2006)

External links

• "The Life of Kingsley Amis" (video), a conversation with Zachary Leader and Martin Amis, London Review of Books, accessed February 5, 2010.
• Prof Zachary Leader, Roehampton University, accessed February 5, 2010.