Tom Overton

Tom Overton is the author of a biography of John Berger, John Berger from Life, and the editor of Portraits: John Berger on Artists, Landscapes: John Berger on Art, and The Underground Sea: John Berger on Miners and the Miners' Strike (with Matthew Harle). An archive curator at the Barbican Centre, London, he catalogued Berger's archive at the British Library. Currently he is at work, in collaboration with Katya Berger, on an edition of Berger's letters, to be published by New York Review Books. His website is overton.tw.

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    About Looking John Berger
    Publication Date: Sep 29, 2026

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