http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/Reviews&blurbs/Authornotes/Crystal.html (The Risc Disc Volume 2, 10/1995)
David Crystal - biographical details
David Crystal
David Crystal was born in 1941 and brought up in Holyhead and Liverpool. He studied English at the University of London and was Professor of Linguistic Science at the University of Reading from 1975 to 1985. David Crystal now works as a writer, editor, lecturer and broadcaster mainly on language and language-related topics, and is one of the world's foremost authorities on reference publishing. He is the editor of the Cambridge Encyclopedia family, and author of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, and many other books.