Penguin published his Selected Poems in 2006. As a journalist, Fenton has reported from Indochina and the Philippines. His essays on art for The New York Review of Books were published in a volume called Leonardo's Nephew. His other books include School of Genius, A History of the Royal Academy of Arts; The Strength of Poetry: Oxford Lectures; and Out of Danger (poems), which won the Whitbread Prize. While he is at the Cullman Center, he will be working on the history of biographical genres for a study called Life Writing. Evan Haefeli