Jonathan Raban, Esq, FRSL

Career: lectr in Eng and American Lit UCW 1965-67, UEA 1967-69, professional writer 1969-; Hon DLitt Univ of Hull; FRSL

Books and Publications: The Technique of Modern Fiction (1969), Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn (1969), The Society of the Poem (1971), Soft City (1973), Arabia Through The Looking Glass (1979), Old Glory (1981, Heinemann award RSL 1982, Thomas Cook award 1982), Foreign Land (1985), Coasting (1986), For Love and Money (1987), God, Man and Mrs Thatcher (1989), Hunting Mister Heartbreak (1990, Thomas Cook Award 1991), The Oxford Book of the Sea (ed, 1992), Bad Land: An American Romance (1996, Nat Book Critics' Circle Award 1997), Passage to Juneau: A Sea and its Meanings (1999), Waxwings (2003), Surveillance (2006), My Holy War (2006), Driving Home (2010, US edn 2011)