Peter Jeffreys

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About The Author

Peter Jeffreys is a Professor of English at Suffolk University in Boston and has written, translated and edited a number of books on Cavafy: Eastern Questions: Hellenism and Orientalism in the Writings of E. M. ForsterC. P. Cavafy; The Forster-Cavafy Letters: Friends at a Slight AngleC. P. Cavafy: Selected Prose WorksReframing Decadence: C. P. Cavafy’s Imaginary Portraits; and Approaches to Teaching the Works of C.P. Cavafy. He is a member of the International Cavafy Archive Academic Committee at the Onassis Foundation and served as a consultant for the exhibits at the Cavafy House in Alexandria and the Cavafy Archive Space in Athens.

Books by Peter Jeffreys

Alexandrian Sphinx

The Hidden Life of Constantine Cavafy

A gripping and revealing new biography of one of the greatest of modern poets, the queer, Greek-Egyptian Constantine Cavafy, whose admirers have ranged from E.M. Forster, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf to Jackie Onassis, Leonard Cohen and Stephen Fry.

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