Francis Wheen

About the Author

Francis Wheen is deputy editor of Private Eye and the editor of Lord Gnome’s Literary Companion, the author of the bestselling How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World and Karl Marx: A Life, and a former columnist in the London Guardian. He has contributed to Vanity Fair, the Nation, the New Yorker, LA Times, and Washington Post, and has appeared on C-SPAN’s Booknotes and National Public Radio.