Alan Stewart

Alan Stewart is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and International Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters in London. His publications include Close Readers: Humanism and Sodomy in Early Modern England (1997), Hostage to Fortune: The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon (with Lisa Jardine, 1998), Philip Sidney: A Double Life (2000), The Cradle King: A Life of James VI and I (2003), and Letterwriting in Renaissance England (with Heather Wolfe, 2004)....See more

Alan Stewart is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and International Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters in London. His publications include Close Readers: Humanism and Sodomy in Early Modern England (1997), Hostage to Fortune: The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon (with Lisa Jardine, 1998), Philip Sidney: A Double Life (2000), The Cradle King: A Life of James VI and I (2003), and Letterwriting in Renaissance England (with Heather Wolfe, 2004). He is a contributing editor to the new Oxford Francis Bacon, and editor of the Barnes and Noble Shakespeare Henry VI plays. See less