Ann Pasternak Slater is a literary scholar, translator and Senior Research Fellow in English at St Anne’s College, Oxford. She has written books on Shakespeare and Evelyn Waugh, edited the works of George Herbert and Evelyn Waugh, and translated Tolstoy and Pasternak. She is a contributing editor on the board of the 42-volume scholarly edition of The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh soon to be published by Oxford University Press.