About the Author

Desmond Morris is a renowned zoologist and a surrealist artist - the last living member of the surrealist movement. After earning his doctorate at Oxford, he worked for Granada Television and the BBC's natural history unit, presenting over 500 TV programmes. His bestselling book, The Naked Ape, has sold over 20 million copies. Morris is also the author of The Lives of the Surrealists (2018), Postures: Body Language in Art (2019), The British Surrealists (2022) and 101 Surrealists (2024), all published by Thames & Hudson. Morris has been published in forty-five languages, and he is the only person to have had a book listed in the top 100 bestsellers of all time and a painting in the Tate.

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