Hello. My name is Alan Jacobs. I am Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University, and a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia.
My next book will be Dorothy L. Sayers: Works and Days. You may pre-order it at the Oxford University Press website and at Amazon.

My most recent already-published book is Paradise Lost: A Biography — an entry in this series. You may order it at the Princeton University Press website or at Amazon.
Earlier: a critical edition of W. H. Auden’s 1955 collection of poems The Shield of Achilles. You may order it at the Princeton University Press website or at Amazon. Earlier still: Breaking Bread with the Dead. You may get a brief preview of it by reading this excerpt.You can find a mostly-complete list of my books here.
If you would like to invite me to speak, first of all Thank you, but I am no longer doing public speaking, for reasons I explain here.
You may subscribe to a weekly digest of my micro.blog posts — I link there to everything I post elsewhere (at least, when I remember).Here are some essays I’ve published in the past few years:
Here are a few other online places where you can find my writing:
