Andrew Robinson is a Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge and holds degrees from Oxford University and the School of Oriental Studies, London. He is now a full-time writer who has worked in book publishing, television and journalism, most recently as Literary Editor of <i>The Times Higher Education Supplement</i> from 1994-2006. His previous publications include <i>The Story of Writing</i>, <i>The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris</i>, and <i>Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts</i>.