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John Mullan is Professor of English at University College London. He has published widely on eighteenth and nineteenth century literature. Most recently he is the author of HOW NOVELS WORK (OUP, 2006), ANONYMITY: A SECRET HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (Faber, 2008) and WHAT MATTERS IN JANE AUSTEN?: TWENTY CRUCIAL PUZZLES SOLVED ( Bloomsbury, 2012). A broadcaster and journalist as well as an academic, he writes a weekly column on contemporary fiction for the Guardian.
John's new book, THE ARTFUL DICKENS: PLOYS AND TRICKS OF THE GREAT NOVELIST, was published by Bloomsbury in 2021.