Oliver Morgan

Oliver Morgan is a writer, academic, and publican.

He taught Renaissance English literature at the universities of Cambridge, Durham, and Geneva before moving back to Sussex to run a bar and write about smuggling.

His first book, Turn-taking in Shakespeare, was published by Oxford University Press in 2019 and won the Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award the following year.

His second, The Tidesman and The Shoemaker, is a detailed investigation into one of eighteenth-century England’s most notorious crimes—the abduction, torture, and murder of William Galley and Daniel Chater by a gang of smugglers on Valentine’s Day 1748.