Richard Appignanesi was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1940, and came to the U.K. in 1967 to complete his D.Phil. in Art History at the University of Sussex. He was a founder member of the Writers & Readers Publishing Cooperative and is the originating editor of Icon’s Introducing series, for which he has also written guides to Postmodernism (1995) and Lenin (1994). He is the author of a fiction trilogy, Italia Perversa: Stalin’s Orphans, The Mosque and Destroying America, and is currently Research Associate at King’s College, London.
Oscar Zarate was born in Buenos Aires in 1942, and was an art director in several advertising agencies there until 1970. He settled in London in 1971 to become a freelance illustrator. He has illustrated introductory guides to Mind & Brain (1998), Melanie Klein (1997), Quantum Theory (1996), Stephen Hawking (1995), Machiavelli (1995), Mafia (1994) and Lenin (1994) in this series. He has also produced many acclaimed graphic novels, including A Small Killing, which was awarded the Will Eisner Prize for best graphic novel of 1994.