John Carey

How do we find our vocation, create a career that feels useful, and make a living? What are the choices? What steers or guides us? What role is played by family, interests, and education? How does one become a professor? Any more questions?

Former Merton Professor of English at the University of Oxford, now Emeritus; reckoned to be a ‘controversial critic and commentator’; Booker Prize judge; author of books that include Pure Pleasure: a guide to the 20th century’s most enjoyable books, and What Good are the Arts; print-maker and bee-keeper, John Carey’s latest book, The Unexpected Professor, is a memoir that reflects on a life immersed in Literature, where that has led him, and where Literature might lead anyone.