'Peter Saunders has been the most prominent liberal intellectual in Australia, with considerable talent as a writer'
Sydney Morning Herald, 2008
Peter Saunders was born and educated in Croydon, England. He spent more than twenty years teaching sociology at the University of Sussex, where he still holds the title of Professor Emeritus. He also taught in universities in Australia, New Zealand, Germany and the United States.
He built an international academic reputation with books on city life, home ownership, social inequality and meritocracy, but in 1999 he abandoned his academic career and went to live in Australia to work in public policy think tanks. He continued to publish on social issues such as poverty and welfare reform, but he also began commenting on current affairs in the press and on radio and television. By the time he returned to Britain in 2008, the Sydney Morning Herald hailed him as 'the most prominent liberal intellectual' in Australia.
He is now developing another new career, as a fiction writer. The Versailles Memorandum is his first full-length novel.
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