Edward Wilson-Lee is an English literature academic at

Sidney Sussex College Sidney Sussex College (referred to informally as "Sidney") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England. The College was founded in 1596 under the terms of the will of Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex (1531–1589), wife ...

, University of Cambridge, and a specialist in the literature and the history of the book in the early modern period.

Early life

Wilson-Lee is the son of wildlife conservationists, and was born in the same Midwest farming town as his father. He studied English at

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, and completed a doctorate at Oxford and Cambridge.

Selected publications

* ''A History of Water : Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History'', William Collins, 2022. * ''The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library''. William Collins, 2018. * ''Shakespeare in Swahililand''. William Collins, 2016. * ''Translation and the Book Trade in Early Modern Europe''. Cambridge University Press, 2014. (Edited with José María Pérez Fernández)

Awards and honors

''Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-living Poet'' became a finalist of

William Saroyan International Prize for Writing The William Saroyan International Prize for Writing is a biennial literary award for fiction and nonfiction in the spirit of William Saroyan by emerging writers. It was established by Stanford University Libraries and the William Saroyan Foundation ...

for non-fiction in 2018. ''The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library'' was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize in Biography and awarded the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize in 2019. Wilson-Lee was named a

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

in the category of General Nonfiction in

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Personal life

He is married, with two sons, and lives in the Cambridge area.

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