David Clifford grew up on the Essex coast of the Thames Estuary, where he worked in a greengrocer’s shop, a dry-cleaning factory, a well-known fast food restaurant, and as a computer programmer with the civil service, before entering university via an access course aged 26. He is a Fellow of Homerton College, Cambridge, where he is Associate Professor in English, with a particular interest in the intersection between literature, anthropology and the history of science.
