Graham Robb (born 1958) is a British author. 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ...
Robb was born in Manchester and educated at the Royal Grammar School, Worcester and at Exeter College, Oxford where he studied Modern Languages. Manchester is a city in the North West of England. ... The Royal Grammar School Worcester (RGS Worcester) is a British independent Public School founded before 1291. ... College name Exeter College Named after Walter de Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter Established 1314 Sister College Emmanuel College Rector Ms. ... A modern language is any human language that is used by societies in the world today. ...
He won the 1997 Whitbread Book Award for best biography (Victor Hugo) and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Rimbaud in 2001. The Whitbread Book Awards are among the United Kingdoms most prestigious literary awards. ... This is an article on biographies. ... Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo (February 26, 1802–May 22, 1885) was a French author, designer, and artist. ... The Samuel Johnson Prize is one of the worlds most prestigious awards for non-fiction writing. ...
Works
Baudelaire, lecteur de Balzac (1988)
Baudelaire by Claude Pichois (1989) translator
La Poésie de Baudelaire et la poésie française : 1838-1852 (1993) criticism
Balzac: A Biography (1994)
Unlocking Mallarmé (1996)
Victor Hugo: A Biography (1997)
Rimbaud: A Biography (2000)
Strangers: Homosexuality In The Nineteenth Century (2003)
Robb is under no illusions about the force of residual antipathy to homosexuality, but he makes one feel how far we have come in the past 30 years.
Robb deals with Wilde's trial in a few well-judged pages, showing incidentally that the notorious Labouchere Amendment of 1885 in fact made no difference to the rate of prosecutions for indecency, and that had Wilde been convicted at any time in the previous 200 years he would probably have received the same sentence.
It is one of Robb's points, none the less, that the shadow of the Wilde case stretches far over the 20th century, an era glimpsed beyond his survey as a kind of Dark Ages for homosexuals.
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