Anthony Curtis, as literary editor first of the Sunday Telegraph and then of the FT, did much to raise standards of reviewing and literary criticism. He has also written biographies and critical studies of Somerset Maugham and of Bloomsbury figures. He is now 83 and says he is delighted to be elected to Fellowship “with its many opportunities to share understanding and enjoyment of the work of past and present writers who have kept alive the great tradition of literature in English.”