Karl Miller

Karl Miller was educated at the Royal High School of Edinburgh and Cambridge and Harvard Universities. He became literary editor of the Spectator and the New Statesman as well as editor of the Listener and went on the found The London Review of Books which he edited for many years. From 1974 to 1992 he served as Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. His books include Cockburn's Millennium which received the James Tait Black Memorial Award Doubles Authors a Life of James Hoggart Electric Shepherd and two volumes of autobiography Rebecca's Vest and Dark Horses.