Robert Ferguson was born in Blackpool in 1948. After completing Norwegian studies at University College in London, he took up a state scholarship in Norway in1983, and has since then lived in Oslo.Ferguson is an award-winning dramatist and has translated and adapted several of Ibsen's plays for the BBC. Apart from "Henrik Ibsen: A New Biography "he is also the author of two other highly acclaimed biographies, "Enigma: The Life of Knut Hamsun" and "Henry Miller: A Life."