Malcolm Gaskill is a professor of early modern history at the University of East Anglia and the author of several books, including "Witchfinders", which was nominated for the Hessell-Tiltman Prize, and "Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England", which was shortlisted for the Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Gaskill lives near Cambridge, England.