Christopher Bigsby is a British literary analyst and novelist, with more than forty books to his credit. Educated at the Universities of Sheffield and Nottingham, he is Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. He is also an occasional contributor as a broadcaster for BBC Radio, and presented Kaleidoscope (Radio 4) for eight years in the 1980s. Earlier in his writing career, his books were published under the name C.W.E. Bigsby. His first book was Confrontation and Commitment: A Study of Contemporary American Drama, 1959-66 (1967). His latest novel, first published in March 2002, is the well-reviewed Beautiful Dreamer.
Bigsby is also considered one the best analysts of theatre, and in particular the definitive commentator on playwright Arthur Miller. Bigsby's books on Miller include, but are not limited to Remembering Arthur Miller (2005), Arthur Miller & Company (1990), The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller (1997), and the definitive work on the great American playwright, the 514-page Arthur Miller: A Critical Study (2005).
In 2006 Bigsby published Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: The Chain of Memory, a meditative study on memory and on the ways in which memory has operated in the work of writers for whom the Holocaust was a defining event. The book includes essays on Jean Améry, Tadeusz Borowski, Anne Frank, Rolf Hochhuth, Primo Levi, Arthur Miller, W.G. Sebald, Elie Wiesel and Peter Weiss
He has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (2007).