Anthony Thwaite was born in 1930. After national service in Libya he read English at Oxford, then worked for the BBC as a producer. He was literary editor of the Listener and the New Statesman, co-editor of Encounter and in 1986 chairman of the Booker Prize judges. He is literary executor of Philip Larkin and the editor of his Collected Poems and Selected Letters. In addition to writing criticism and books on travel and topography, he is a regular reviewer for the Guardian and other journals.

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Anthony Thwaite was born in 1930. After national service in Libya he read English at Oxford, then worked for the BBC as a producer. He was literary editor of the Listener and the New Statesman, co-editor of Encounter and in 1986 chairman of the Booker Prize judges. He is literary executor of Philip Larkin and the editor of his Collected Poems and Selected Letters. In addition to writing criticism and books on travel and topography, he is a regular reviewer for the Guardian and other journals.

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