Annabel Patterson is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University. She has written over a dozen books on early British literature, portraits, politics, parliamentary history, and law. She lives in Connecticut.

"Annabel Patterson, leading expert on politics in Renaissance literature, has produced a dazzling study of modern world fiction, each novel shown to expose (often through lush, confident technique) the persistent violence that infests the relations between bigger and smaller nations and puts the hand of death on countless lives."—Nigel Smith, Princeton University.

Annabel Patterson is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University. She has written over a dozen books on early British literature, portraits, politics, parliamentary history, and law. She lives in Connecticut.

"Annabel Patterson, leading expert on politics in Renaissance literature, has produced a dazzling study of modern world fiction, each novel shown to expose (often through lush, confident technique) the persistent violence that infests the relations between bigger and smaller nations and puts the hand of death on countless lives."—Nigel Smith, Princeton University.