name: Alan Stewart
genres: Biography, History
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about: Alan Stewart is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of the biographies Philip Sidney: A Double Life and Hostage to Fortune: The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon (with Lisa Jardine)&gt;. He was previously Reader in Renaissance Studies at Birbeck, University of London, and Associate Director of the AHRB Centre for Editing Lives and Letters.