Author

Books by Richard Holmes

Richard Holmes is a British literary biographer whose work has focused on the Romantic period. He is best known for Shelley: The Pursuit and the two-volume biography Coleridge: Early Visions and Coleridge: Darker Reflections, for which he received the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. The Age of Wonder won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books and the National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction. Holmes was appointed CBE in 1992 and elected a Fellow of the British Academy. He lives in Norfolk, England.