There are currently 21 names in this directory beginning with the letter C.
Callil, Carmen
Carmen Callil founded the Virago Press in 1972. At Virago, amongst other business and editorial aspects of the company, she was responsible for the creation and development of the Virago Modern Classics list. In 1982 she also became Publisher of Chatto & Windus & The Hogarth Press. She retired as a publisher in 1995. She is now a writer and has published The Modern Library: The Best 200 Novels in English since 1950 co-written with Colm Toibin, BAD FAITH: A Forgotten History of Family & Fatherland, a book about Vichy France and OH HAPPY DAY: Those Times & These Times, the story of her ancestors from Leicestershire & Lincolnshire, and their despatch to Australia in the mid-nineteenth century, published November 2020.
Cameron, Nigel M. de S
Nigel M. de S. Cameron has published in several fields, including history, religion, and the ethics of technology. His career has included U.S. universities, including the Illinois Institute of Technology, and an appointment as Fulbright Visiting Research Professor at the University of Ottawa. He has also led a Washington think tank on technology policy, and served as tech editor with the founding team of the UK-based web magazine UnHerd. His first biography, Dr Koop: The Many Lives of the Surgeon General, due out in April of 2025 from the University of Massachusetts Press, offers the first full life of President Reagan’s flamboyant appointee, who became one of the best-known figures in late-20th century America. He is currently working on the first biography of Ruth Beuscher/Barnhouse, Sylvia Plath’s psychiatrist and friend. A native of the UK, he lived for nearly thirty years in the United States; he now divides his time between homes in Brussels and Boulogne-sur-Mer.
Campbell, Katharine- Dr Katharine Campbell
Katharine’s special interest is in biography coupled with medical/scientific history and analysis relevant to her subjects’ life stories. Her first book, Behold the Dark Gray Man: Triumphs and Trauma, the Controversial Life of Sholto Douglas, published in July 2021 by Biteback, is the story of her father, a senior RAF commander who served in both world wars. Woven through the book is an account of his struggle from childhood with incipient post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The book was shortlisted for the Tony Lothian Prize in 2018. It has also been selected for the Chief of the Air Staff’s Reading List in 2022.
She was trained as a neuroscientist, having completed an MSc in Biomedical Sciences Research (with distinction) at King’s College and University College London (UCL), followed by a PhD in Neuroscience at UCL and many years as a postdoctoral neurophysiologist. She has rewarding associations with leading experts on PTSD in Australia, the Netherlands and the UK, and collaborates with historians throughout Europe.
Katharine was invited to participate in the Australian Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide, beginning in July 2021. Recently, she has had a paper about moral injury, which also affected her father, accepted by the Royal United Services Institute Journal. She was interviewed by BBC Radio 4 for a documentary on the first Nuremberg Trial, in which her father reviewed the pleas for clemency, on its 75th anniversary in 2021. She campaigns for the charity Combat Stress.
She was trained as a neuroscientist, having completed an MSc in Biomedical Sciences Research (with distinction) at King’s College and University College London (UCL), followed by a PhD in Neuroscience at UCL and many years as a postdoctoral neurophysiologist. She has rewarding associations with leading experts on PTSD in Australia, the Netherlands and the UK, and collaborates with historians throughout Europe.
Katharine was invited to participate in the Australian Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide, beginning in July 2021. Recently, she has had a paper about moral injury, which also affected her father, accepted by the Royal United Services Institute Journal. She was interviewed by BBC Radio 4 for a documentary on the first Nuremberg Trial, in which her father reviewed the pleas for clemency, on its 75th anniversary in 2021. She campaigns for the charity Combat Stress.