Alberto Manguel is a Canadian Argentine - born writer, translator, and editor. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books, such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places and A History of Reading (1996) The Library at Night (2007) and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography (2008), and novels such as News From a Foreign Country Came (1991). He attended the 2010 Edinburgh Book festival to talk about his book 'All Men Are Liars.'