Life
Mark Ford was born in Nairobi,British Kenya,on 24 June 1962 to Donald and Mary Ford. His father worked for the airlines BOAC,then British Airways. As a result,he had a peripatetic childhood,moving 'to a new country roughly every 18 months',accompanied by a 'sense of rootlessness or of not belonging'. [1] [2]
After school in London,he attended Oxford University,graduating in 1983 with a First in English Literature. He then studied at Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar,before returning to Oxford to study for his doctorate,writing his thesis on the poetry of John Ashbery,supervised by John Bayley. After a number of years working as a lecturer in Oxford and London,he then moved to Japan,where he was Visiting Lecturer at Kyoto University between 1991-3.
Following this appointment,he worked as a freelance writer,principally reviewing poetry for The Guardian.
He is a regular contributor to TheNew York Review of Books, [3] Times Literary Supplement , [4] and the London Review of Books . [5]
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