David Vernon

Dr David Vernon writes about literature and classical music, including on Shakespeare, Nabokov, Wagner, Mahler, Beethoven, Sibelius, Yukio Mishima, and Clarice Lispector. His next book, on Dmitri Shostakovich's 15 string quartets, will be published in the autumn of 2027.

He studied at Trinity College, University of Oxford, before teaching English language and literature in China and Japan. After returning to Europe, he completed his doctorate on Shakespeare's tragicomedies at Freie Universität Berlin and taught for many years in London. He lives in the Highlands of Scotland.