Philip Ward is a writer, translator and (occasional) composer. He worked for many years in the House of Commons Library. His publications include Hofmannsthal and Greek Myth (2002), a translation of Frank Wedekind's novella Mine-Haha (2010), and studies of the work of Sandy Denny (2011), Helen Mirren (2019), Laura Nyro (2022) and Michael Arlen (2023) as well as a volume of essays, Instead of a Critic (2022). He lives in Cambridge, where he is a Senior Member of Wolfson College.
