Edward Lucie-Smith was born in Jamaica in 1933 and came to England after the Second World War. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Merton College, Oxford. He spent ten years working in advertising, then left to write full-time, earning a reputation as a poet and art critic.
His many books include Eroticism in Western Art (1972; revised edition published as Sexuality in Western Art, 1991), Art Today (1977), Art Today (a completely new text, 1995) and Visual Arts in the Twentieth Century (1996). He has also edited a number of collections of poetry, including The Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse (1965) and British Poetry Since 1945 (1970).
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