# Bruce Holsinger

Bruce W. Holsinger is an American author, academic and literary scholar, professor of English at the University of Virginia and the author of A Burnable Book. He is considered an expert on the use of parchment in medieval English manuscript production, and organised, with bioarchaeologists from the University of York, the research project into uterine vellum which established the precise composition for the material used in for the creation of the earliest bible manuscripts.The New York Times described him as "gamekeeper turned poacher", due to the fact that Holsinger, a professor at the University of Virginia, specialising in medieval English literature, turned to writing fiction based around his academic interests. His first novel was A Burnable Book in 2014.