Pete Orford Author & Editor

Pete Orford is a leading Dickensian scholar with a keen interest in opening discussion of Dickens's works to a popular audience. His most recent publication is The Life of the Author: Charles Dickens (2023) which offers a guide to Dickens's life and works to new scholars and enthusiasts. He has been involved in several community online readalongs and projects to get people talking about Dickens. He is the lead organiser for the annual Dickens Day conference in London, course director of the MA in Charles Dickens Studies, and an academic associate of the Charles Dickens Museum.