Owen Knowles is Research Fellow at the University of Hull. He has written numerous articles and books on Joseph Conrad, including An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Joseph Conrad (1992) and (with Gene M. Moore) the Oxford Reader's Companion to Conrad (2000). The Advisory Editor of The Conradian: the Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK), he has also edited several Conrad works, co-edited Volumes 6 and 9 of Conrad's Collected Letters and edited two volumes of letters to and about Conrad.