David Buckman has been a journalist and author for over 50 years, writing for numerous magazines and newspapers, and has also made several hundred radio and television broadcasts. After the first edition of his dictionary Artists in Britain Since 1945 appeared in 1998 he has concentrated on arts writing. He contributed to Macmillan’s Dictionary of Art and Brian McFarlane’s Encyclopedia of British Film. Monograph subjects include J B Manson, Leonid Pasternak, Martin Leman and Glyn and Katherine Walne; Charles Debenham’s East AngliaIndependent and the Guardian. He is an advisor to the Public Catalogue Foundation.