John Gross

John Gross was the editor of The Times Literary Supplement in London, a senior book editor and book critic on the staff of The New York Times in New York, and theatre critic for The Sunday Telegraph. He was also literary editor of The New Statesman and Spectator magazines.

He is author of several very well regarded books, and has been described by both The Guardian and The Spectator as “the best-read man in Britain”. The Guardian also wrote: “Mr Gross is one good argument for the survival of the species”.

In a lead editorial about John Gross, The Times (of London) described him as “one of Britain’s most distinguished men of letters… Gross would have been a great academic. But he conveyed his voluminous knowledge to a far wider readership, whose mental lives he enriched.”