Colin Salter
Colin Salter is a former theatrical production manager, now a prolific author of literary history. In the course of fifteen years he worked on well over a hundred plays including, of course, many by William Shakespeare. For Batsford he has written 100 Books That Changed the World and 100 Children's Books That Inspire Our World . He is the author of a biography of Mark Twain and is currently working on a history of the books in one family's three-hundred-year-old library. He delights in the...See more
Colin Salter is a former theatrical production manager, now a prolific author of literary history. In the course of fifteen years he worked on well over a hundred plays including, of course, many by William Shakespeare. For Batsford he has written 100 Books That Changed the World and 100 Children's Books That Inspire Our World . He is the author of a biography of Mark Twain and is currently working on a history of the books in one family's three-hundred-year-old library. He delights in the richness of language, whether William Shakespeare's or P. G. Wodehouse's. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife, dog, and bicycle. See less
