About

Paul Skinner, Bristol, United Kingdom.

In recent years, worked in publishing, as a bookseller and—less recently and rather fitfully—as a lecturer in 19th and 20th century British and American literature. Currently reader, writer, researcher. Primary interest: the modernist period, perhaps briefly summarised as ‘Ford Madox Ford and his Contemporaries’: Ezra Pound, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, W. B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot (but also Rudyard Kipling and Sylvia Townsend Warner). Add many later names to these, from Penelope Fitzgerald, Guy Davenport and Patrick White to W. G. Sebald, Anne Carson and Sarah Waters.

General editor of Last Post: A Literary Journal from the Ford Madox Ford Society, which launched in November 2018. Currently editing Volume 3 of the Collected Letters of Ford Madox Ford, which covers the period from August 1914 to November 1922, and co-editing (with Dr Helen Chambers), Volume 4, which ranges from November 1922 up to April 1930, just before Ford meets his final life partner, the painter Janice Biala, on May Day.