David Attwell is Professor of English at the University of York. He was educated at the University of Natal in Durban, the University of Cape Town, and the University of Texas at Austin. He has published widely in postcolonial studies, specialising in South African literature. With Derek Attridge he co-edited The Cambridge History of South African Literature (2012). His previous books include J.M. Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing (1993), J.M. Coetzee, Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews (1992) of which he was editor and interviewer, and Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History (2005 and 2006).