Anthony Everitt

Anthony Everitt (born 31 January 1940) is a British author. He publishes regularly in ''The Guardian'' and ''The Financial Times''. He worked in literature and visual arts. He was Secretary-General of the Arts Council of Great Britain. He is a visiting professor in the performing and visual arts at Nottingham Trent University. Everitt is a companion of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and an Honorary Fellow of the Dartington College of Arts.

Everitt has written books about Roman history, amongst which biographies of Augustus, Hadrian and Cicero and a book on ''The Rise of Rome''. He lives in Wivenhoe near Colchester.

Everitt read English literature at the University of Cambridge. Provided by Wikipedia