John Baxter

John Baxter is a renowned novelist, lecturer and broadcaster as well as a highly acclaimed film critic and film biographer. His subjects have included Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick and Von Sternberg.

He has also had a lifelong passion for book collecting, which led him to write a best-selling memoir of his life as a collector, A Pound of Paper, in which he also explores the exploding market in first editions. In his enchanting memoir, The Most Beautiful Walk in the World  (May 2011), John remembers his year-long experience of giving “literary walking tours” through his beloved Paris, where he has lived since 1989.

John's latest book, The Inner Man: The Life of JG Ballard, profiles the extraordinary writer and is published in September 2011.