Background
The son of Michael William McCrum a Cambridge ancient historian, McCrum was educated at Sherborne School, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Master of Arts) and the University of Pennsylvania as a Thouron Scholar.
The son of Michael William McCrum a Cambridge ancient historian, McCrum was educated at Sherborne School, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Master of Arts) and the University of Pennsylvania as a Thouron Scholar.
Corpus Christi College. Sherborne School.
McCrum was editorial director at Faber & Faber from 1979 to 1989 and editor-in-chief there from 1990 to 1996. He served as literary editor of The Observer for more than ten years. In May 2008 he was appointed associate editor of The Observer.
McCrum is the co-author of The Story of English with William Cran and Robert MacNeil and wrote P. G. Wodehouse: A Life.
His novel, Suspicion, was published in 1997. McCrum received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 2011.