Robert Macfarlane is a British non-fiction writer, and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Macfarlane is best known for his books on landscape, nature, place, people and language, which include The Old Ways (2012), Landmarks (2015), The Lost Words (2017), Underland (2019) and Is a River Alive? (2025), and for his many collaborations with musicians, composers and artists.
- Occupation
- university teacher, writer, philologist, journalist
- Position held
- Booker Prize judge, Booker Prize judge
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- August 15, 1976