Bruce King is a former lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. His publications include New English Literatures: Cultural Nationalism in a Changing World, Modern Indian Poetry in English, Three Indian Poets, V. S. Naipaul, and Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life.

"This survey is unprecedented in its seriousness and detail. King traces historical influences, along with the biography of subsequent writers, putting them in the context of both their ethnic background and their British environment. He reads genres with an unusual degree of attention.... King brings to the scene the virtues of traditional lit-crit along with a tough-minded determination to map the features of the new writing. He begins with a refreshingly bullish justification of his title."--Mike Phillips, The Guardian Review

"King provides an authoritative, brisk, and detailed survey of the poetry, fiction, and drama produced by these writers since 1948.... he deftly places the texts within their specific historical, social, and biographical contexts...The Internationalization of English Literature provides an essential resource for anyone who wishes to explore the literature produce in England during the past fifty years, and a means for scholars who wish to pursue the fuller implications of its title."--Research in African Literatures

"Bruce King is one of the pioneering scholars of world literature in English.... Although several good anthologies and readers already exist in the field, this is the first comprehensive literary history of Black and Asian literature after World War II. As such, King's book--judicious, thorough, steeped in its sources--is a major critical contribution to both 'postcolonial' and 'English' literary history.... This is a groundbreaking yet engagingly readable overview of one of the most important and exciting new areas in literary studies."--Virginia Quarterly Review

"The new Oxford English Literary History series [is] destined to become a standard academic source.... Advanced undergraduates will join lifelong learners in praising these volumes as sources of renewed and renewable literary energy."--The Providence Journal