Seamus Deane was born in the city of Derry in Northern Ireland in 1940. He was educated at Queen's University in Belfast and earned his doctorate at Cambridge University. A poet and literary critic, he taught literature for many years at University College Dublin and was the general editor of the three-volume Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. He currently teaches at the University of Notre Dame.

Books by Seamus Deane

Reading in the Dark

by Seamus Deane