Richard Davenport-Hines (born 21 June 1953 in London) is a noted British historian and literary biographer, best known for his biography of the poet W.
H.
Auden.
Davenport-Hines is also an expert on the famous Cambridge economist John Maynard Keynes.
He was educated at St Paul's School, London and Selwyn College, Cambridge.
Davenport-Hines has published more than twenty books and essays on a variety of historical, political, and philosophical topics over the course of his career.