Jonathan Keates is a prolific author in genres including biography, fiction, music, travel writing, critical essays and architectural and historical heritage. His books include Stendhal, Handel: The Man and His Music, Purcell: A Biography and The Siege of Venice, and he contributes regularly to a number of newspapers and journals. A former winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and teaches English at the City of London School.
