Zulfikar Ghose

Zulfikar Ghose (b. Sialkot, Pakistan, 1935) is Professor Emeritus in the English Department of the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his B.A. in English and Philosophy from Keele University in 1959 before becoming a cricket correspondent for The Observer and reviewing books for Western Daily Press, TLS, the New Statesman, and The Spectator. He became a British citizen in 1961 and published his first book, The Loss of India, in 1964. He emigrated to the United States in 1969 and has taught at UT Austin ever since, publishing almost two dozen books as well as poetry in the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, the New Statesman, and elsewhere.