1. Douglas Kerr is a British writer and academic who is best known for his work on Arthur Conan Doyle and George Orwell.
10 Facts About Douglas Kerr
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Douglas Kerr went on to read English at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1969 before completing his PhD in comparative literature at Warwick University in 1978.
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In 1979, Douglas Kerr travelled to Hong Kong, where he had obtained an appointment as a lecturer in the Department of English Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong.
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Outside of academia, Douglas Kerr contributed to Hong Kong's English-language cultural life by reviewing books for the South China Morning Post and hosting 60 programmes of a talk show, The Big Idea, for Radio Television Hong Kong on cultural, historical and scientific themes.
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Douglas Kerr addressed conferences presenting keynote speeches around the world, promoting excellence in written English with his wife Elaine Ho, a literary academic.
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Douglas Kerr served on the board of directors of the Hong Kong International Literary Festival and became its chairman from 2009 to 2011, and participated in various BBC Radio programmes featuring the work of Wilfred Owen, George Orwell and Leonard Woolf.
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In 2017, Douglas Kerr left Hong Kong and is living and working in the UK.
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Douglas Kerr is the general editor of The Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle, an ambitious multi-volume project to publish scholarly editions of this author's principal writing in fiction and non-fiction, from the publisher of his alma mater, the Edinburgh University Press.
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Douglas Kerr is the editor of the first volume in the edition, Memories and Adventures, Conan Doyle's autobiography, which has never been properly edited.
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Douglas Kerr continues to be engaged with scholarly editing as well as writing about the work of Doyle, Joseph Conrad, and Orwell.