Dr. James Hamilton, Ph.D., is the author of the biographies Turner — A Life (1997; US, 2002), and Faraday — The Life (2002; US, 2004). He was guest curator of the exhibitions Turner and the Scientists (Tate Gallery, 1998), Turner: The Late Sea Paintings (Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, and touring to Manchester and Glasgow, 2003-04), Turner's Britain (Birmingham, 2003-04), Turner and Italy (Edinburgh, Ferarra, and Budapest, 2008-09), and Volcano — from Turner to Warhol (Compton Verney, 2010). He is university curator and honorary reader at the University of Birmingham, and a former Alistair Horne fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford, 1998-99. His other books include the biographies Arthur Rackham (1990) and William Heath Robinson (1992), Wood Engraving and the Woodcut in Britain c. 1890-1990 (1994), The Sculpture of Austin Wright (1994), Hughie O'Donoghue — Painting, Memory, Myth (2003), London Lights: The Minds that Moved the City that Shook the World 1805-51 (2007), and Volcano — Nature and Culture (2012). James Hamilton read history of art at the University of Manchester. He began his career as curator of art at Portsmouth City Museum (1972-74) and Wakefield City Art Gallery (1974-76), and continued as keeper of the Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield (1976-84), and director of the Yorkshire Contemporary Art Group, Leeds (1984-89).