Richard Appignanesi

Richard Appignanesi
Richard Appignanesi - 2014
Richard Appignanesi - Writer, editor and publisher
Born (1940-12-20) December 20, 1940 (age 83)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
OccupationWriter, editor and publisher
Alma materLoyola College (Montreal), BA; University of Sussex, Ph.D.
Period1972 to present

Richard Appignanesi (/æpɪŋʊnˈz/; born December 20, 1940) is a Canadian writer and editor. He was the originating editor of the internationally successful illustrated For Beginners book series (since 1991 called the Introducing... series), as well as the author of several of the series' texts. He is a founding publisher and editor of Icon Books.[1] He was founding editor of the Manga Shakespeare series.[2] He is a former executive editor of the journal Third Text, and reviews editor of the policy studies journal Futures.[3]

Appignanesi has authored four novels, a graphic novel, a variety of graphic texts, a volume of poetry, monographs and essays on cultural and literary subjects, and has curated several of projects.

  1. ^ "About Icon," Icon Books website. Accessed Jan. 11, 2015. Archived 2014-12-18 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Johnson-Woods, Toni, editor. An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives, Bloomsbury Academic (London, 2010). pp. 267-280.
  3. ^ "Richard Appignanesi," Granta Books website. Accessed Jan. 11, 2015.