Philip Horne (born 1957) is a teacher and literary critic specializing in 19th century literature, particularly Henry James and Charles Dickens.
Not surprisingly he used the New York Edition texts for all these works, and he included extensive textual notes.
The book used 296 of James' letters as the framework for a biography that concentrated on the novelist's professional career.
Horne published an edition of Oliver Twist in 2003, and has written on such varied topics as telephones and literature, zombies and consumer culture, and the texts of Emily Dickinson.
His research interests include the films of Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese, and publishing history.