Adam Smyth is Professor of English Literature and the History of the Book at
Balliol College, Oxford University. He works on the connections between
literature and material texts, particularly in the 16th and 17th centuries, but
also more widely. He is the author of four books (most
recently, Material Texts in
Early Modern England (2018)), and the editor or co-editor of
four collections of essays (including Book Parts, with Dennis Duncan).
Adam is a founder member of the 39 Steps Press printing collective, based in a
barn in Oxfordshire. He co-hosts the literary podcast and sometime radio show
LitBits. He writes regularly for the London Review of Books.
The Book: A Story in Thirteen Extraordinary Lives is
forthcoming from Bodley Head.
Agent: Eleanor Birne
