John Sutherland
Sutherland, John Andrew
October 9, 1938 – present
Birth place: London, England, UK
<br>Academic, newspaper columnist and emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London and a visiting professor of Literature at the California Institute of Technology. He is the author of many books and has edited many volumes of Trollop's works. For Penguin Classics he has edited <i>Phineas Finn</i>, <i>Rachel Ray</i>, Thackeray's <i>Henry Esmond</i> and H. G. Wells's <i>The History of Mr Polly</i> [sic]. For Viking Penguin he has written <i>Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography</i>. [source: <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?1005057">The History of Mr Polly</a>]