Robert McCrum is a well-known writer, journalist, and BBC Radio Four broadcaster, as well as a distinguished veteran of the British book world. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Faber & Faber (1980-1995), where he edited authors like Milan Kundera, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Marilynne Robinson, and discovered Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro and Booker Prize winner Peter Carey.