Robin Anthony Herschel Waterfield (born on the 6th of August in 1952)[1] is a British classical scholar, translator, editor, and writer of children's fiction.
Waterfield was born in 1952, and studied Classics at Manchester University, where he achieved a first class degree in 1974.
He went on to research ancient Greek philosophy at King's College, Cambridge until 1978, after which he became a lecturer at Newcastle University and then St Andrews University.
[2] He later became a copy-editor and later a commissioning editor for Penguin Books.
[3] He is now a self-employed writer.