Michael Newton is the author of avage Girls and Wild Boys: A
History of Feral Children (2002) and Age of Assassins: A History of
Conspiracy and Political Violence, 1865-1981 (2012). On the subject
of cinema, he has written Show People: A History of the Film Star
(2019) and books on Kind Hearts and Coronets (2003) and Rosemary's
Baby (2020) for the BFI Film Classics series. He has edited Edmund
Gosse's Father and Son
and Victorian Fairy Tales for Oxford World's Classics, and Joseph
Conrad's The Secret Agent and The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories for
Penguin Classics, and co-edited the anthology, Literature and
Science, 1660-1834: Science as Polite Culture (2002).
He teaches literature and film at Leiden University.
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