Bruce Wannell

Bruce Wannell (25 August 1953 – 29 January 2020)

Wannell read French and German at Oriel College of the University of Oxford.

Wannell died on January 29, 2020. An obituary was published in The Times. A book about his life was published later that year. Hugh Thomson writing in his obituary of Wannell for The Spectator compared him to the British literary critic Eric Griffiths. Dalrymple stated that Wannell's standards were so high that he found it difficult to write anything that matched them and that his output did not reflect his erudition with many commissioned books never seeing the light of day.