Richard Davenport-Hines won the Wolfson History Prize for his first book, Dudley Docker, and is a member of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Literature. He is the author of several books including biographies of W. H. Auden and Marcel Proust. His most recent works include An English Affair, Titanic Lives and Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes. He writes for the Guardian, Oldie, Spectator, The Times, Wall Street Journal and Times Literary Supplement. He is an adviser to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and lives in London.