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Stuart Kelly (literary critic)

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Stuart Kelly
OccupationLiterary Critic and Author
LanguageEnglish
Alma materUniversity of Oxford

Stuart Kelly is a Scottish critic and author. He is the literary editor of The Scotsman.[1]

His works include The Book Of Lost Books: An Incomplete Guide To All The Books You’ll Never Read and Scott-Land: The Man Who Invented A Nation (2010), which was longlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.[2] Kelly writes for The Scotsman, Scotland On Sunday, The Guardian and The Times. In 2014 Kelly was a judge for the Man Booker Prize.[3]

Kelly is currently president of the Walter Scott Club.[4]

Bibliography

  • ''The Book of Lost Books" 2005[5][6]
  • "Scott-Land: the Man Who Invented a Nation" 2011[7][8]

References

  1. ^ Guardian Profile
  2. ^ Samuel Johnson Prize Longlist 2011
  3. ^ The Man Booker Prize
  4. ^ The Edinburgh Walter Scott Club
  5. ^ Queenan, Joe (2006-04-30). "Treasure Hunt". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-09-18.
  6. ^ Simon, Scott (June 10, 2006). "Recovering Literature's 'Lost Books'". NPR. Retrieved 2016-09-18.
  7. ^ McVey, David (2010-08-26). "Scott-land: The Man Who Invented A Nation, By Stuart Kelly". The Independence. Retrieved 2016-09-18.
  8. ^ "Episode 1, Stuart Kelly - Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation, Book of the Week - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 2016-09-18.