Edward Wilson-Lee

Wilson-Lee is the son of wildlife conservationists, and was born in the same Midwest farming town as his father. He studied English at University College London, and completed a doctorate at Oxford and Cambridge. ==Personal life==

He is married, with two sons, and lives in the Cambridge area. ==Selected publications==

• Translation and the Book Trade in Early Modern Europe (2014). Cambridge University Press. (Edited with José María Pérez Fernández) • Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-living Poet (2016). William Collins. • The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library (2018). William Collins. • A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History (2022). William Collins. • A Grammar of Angels. A Search for the Magical Powers of Sublime Language. (2025). William Collins. ==Awards and honors==

Shakespeare in Swahililand became a finalist of William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for non-fiction in 2018. The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in Biography and awarded the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize in 2019. Wilson-Lee was named a Guggenheim Fellow in the category of General Nonfiction in 2022. ==See also==