Education
Street Catharine"s College.
Street Catharine"s College.
Born Alan Mark Sheridan-Smith, Sheridan read English at Street Catharine"s College, Cambridge before spending 5 years in Paris as English assistant at Lycée Henri IV and Lycée Condorcet. Returning to London, he briefly worked in publishing before becoming a freelance translator. He has translated works of fiction, history, philosophy, literary criticism, biography and psychoanalysis by Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Robert Pinget and many others
He was the first to publish a book in English on Foucault"s work and has also written a biography of André Gide.