Richard Fallon

“Memory, at least, will never fail me, for so long as the breath of life is in me, every hour and every action of that period will stand out as hard and clear as do the first strange happenings of our childhood.”

The Lost World (1912)

Richard Fallon is Research Associate in Natural History Humanities at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge. He focuses on the literary and cultural history of palaeontology during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, exploring topics like adventure fiction, religious belief, and the uses of fossil collections. He is the author of Contesting Earth’s History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860–1935 (Oxford University Press, 2025) and Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and edited the anthology Creatures of Another Age (Valancourt Books, 2021).