Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is Professor of English Literature at Oxford University and a Fellow of Magdalen College. His books include Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist (2011), which was awarded the Duff Cooper Prize, The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland (2015), which was shortlisted for the Costa Prize, and The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World (2021). In 2015 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.