Robert Morrison is British Academy Global Professor at Bath Spa University and Queen's National Scholar at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He is the author of The Regency Revolution (2019), which was shortlisted for the Historical Writers' Association Crown Award for the best in non-fiction historical writing, and named by The Economist as one of its 2019 Books of the Year. His biography of Thomas De Quincey, The English Opium Eater (2009), was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize. Morrison edited De Quincey's Selected Writings (2019) for Oxford University Press, and Jane Austen's Persuasion (2011) for Harvard University Press.