N. P. James

Born Nicholas James Philip Wegner 1948 Bromley Kent (Nicholas Philip James from 2002) father Fritz Wegner, illustrator (1924-2015) mother Janet writer and journalist.Studied painting with Frank Auerbach at the Slade School of Art, UCL, and History of Art (MA) at Kingston University 1995. He since worked as a writer, editor and publisher.

His titles include 'Artists Stories' with Anna Douglas (a-n publ.1996), Albion Journal, Interviews-Artists and Curators & Collections (Cv/VAR Editions). He is a leading art journalist, with recent interviews and reviews including Yinka Shonibare, Marc Quinn, Matthew Barney, Jim Dine and others. (artslant.com)

He has published studies of Francis Bacon, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst. The editor of Cv Publications, London, he formed Cv/Visual Arts Research in 1995 and the imprint Cv/VAR Editions in 2009. There are 350 titles on kindle, 70 as Amazon paperbacks and 247 audiobooks on Audible (ACX).