David Gilmour’s books include award-winning biographies of Rudyard Kipling and Lord Curzon. He is also the author of The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj and of several books on Spain and the Middle East. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a former Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford, he is a contributor to the Spectator and the New York Review of Books. He is currently writing a book on Giuseppe Verdi and the unification of Italy.

The Last Leopard won the Marsh Biography Award in 1989.

BOOKS BY DAVID GILMOUR:

Curzon

The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling

The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj

The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa

Cities of Spain

The Transformation of Spain: From Franco to the Constitutional Monarchy

Lebanon: The Fractured Country

The Hungry Generations