Julian Evans grew up in Australia and London. His first book, Transit of Venus (1992), has been called ‘probably the best modern travelogue about the Pacific’. More recently his bi...view moreJulian Evans grew up in Australia and London. His first book, Transit of Venus (1992), has been called ‘probably the best modern travelogue about the Pacific’. More recently his biography of the writer Norman Lewis, Semi-Invisible Man (2008), has been received with widespread critical acclaim. He has written for many publications including the Guardian and the New Statesman, and presented radio and television documentaries on writers including Robert Louis Stevenson, F. Scott Fitzgerald and José Saramago. He lives in south-west England.view less