This is not the John Carey that goes to Starpoint. HE is super cool and hates people who drive EVO's!!

John Carey (born 1934) is a British literary critic, and emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. He was born in Barnes, London, and brought up in Nottingham as an evacuee and East Sheen. He studied at St. John's College, Oxford. After posts in a number of Oxford colleges, he became Merton Professor in 1975, retiring in 2001. 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The University of Oxford (usually abbreviated as Oxon. ... Barnes is a suburb in south-west London in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see Nottingham (disambiguation). ... Sheen is a place in southwest London nearby to Barnes, Roehampton and Putney to the east and Richmond to the west. ... St Johns College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ...

He is known, amongst other things, for his anti-elitist tone and iconoclastic views on high culture, as expressed for example in his recent book What Good Are the Arts? (2005). This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

He has twice chaired the Booker Prize committee, in 1982 and 2004, and chaired the judging panel for the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005. He also is a reviewer for the London Sunday Times. The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known as the Man Booker Prize, or simply the Man Booker, is one of the worlds most important literary prizes, and awarded each year for the best original novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland in... The Man Booker International Prize is a biennial international literary award given to a living author of any nationality for fiction published in English or generally available in English translation. ... The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International which is in turn owned by News Corporation. ...

Works

• The Poems of John Milton (1968) editor with Alastair Fowler
• Andrew Marvell: A Critical Anthology (1969) editor
• The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg (1969) editor
• Milton (1970)
• Complete Shorter Poems of John Milton (1971) editor
• The Violent Effigy. A Study of Dickens' Imagination (1973) also as Here Comes Dickens: The Imagination of a Novelist
• Thackeray: Prodigal Genius (1977)
• English Renaissance Studies: Presented To Dame Helen Gardner In Honour Of Her Seventieth Birthday (1979)
• John Donne: Life, Mind and Art (1981)
• William Golding : The Man and His Books (1986) editor
• Eye-Witness to History (1987) editor
• Original Copy : Selected Reviews and Journalism 1969-1986 (1987)
• Faber Book of Reportage (1989) editor
• John Donne (1990) editor, Oxford Authors
• Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939 (1992)
• Short Stories and the Unbearable Bassington by Saki (1994) editor
• Faber Book of Science (1995)
• Selected Poetry of John Donne (1998)
• Faber Book of Utopias (2000)
• Pure Pleasure : a Guide to the Twentieth Century's Most Enjoyable Books (2000)
• George Orwell, Essays (2002) editor
• Vanity Fair by William Thackeray (2002) editor
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (2003) editor