Michael Wood born in Lincoln, England, is the Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and Professor of comparative literature at Princeton University. He is an alumnus of St John's College, Cambridge. Prior to teaching to Princeton, he taught at Columbia University, and at the University of Exeter in Devon, England. He was Director of the Gauss Seminars in Criticism at Princeton from 1995?2001, and chaired Princeton's English department from 1998 to 2004. He writes regularly for The New York Review of Books and on film for the London Review of Books. 

August 19th, 1936 in Lincoln (Age 88)