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Jeremy Lewis worked in publishing for much of his life after leaving Trinity College, Dublin, in 1965. He was a director of Chatto & Windus for ten years, and the Deputy Editor of the London Magazine from 1990 to 1994. He has been the Commissioning Editor of the Oldie since 1997. He has written two highly praised volumes of autobiography, Playing for Time and Kindred Spirits, and edited The Chatto Book of Office Life. His authorized biography of Cyril Connolly was published by Jonathan Cape in 1997, his life of Tobias Smollett in 2003, and he is currently working on a book about the Greene family. A Committee Member of the R. S. Surtees Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he is married with two daughters and lives near Richmond Park.