A native of England, Joseph Pearce is the internationally acclaimed author of many books, which include bestsellers such as The quest for Shakespeare, Tolkien: Man and myth, The unmasking of Oscar Wilde, C.S. Lewis and the Catholic church, Literary converts, Wisdom and innocence: A life of G.K. Chesterton, Solzhenitsyn: A soul in exile and Old Thunder: A life of Hilaire Belloc. His books have been published and translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, Italian, Korean, Mandarin, Croatian, and Polish.