Birmingham's first notable literary figure is John Rogers, the compiler and editor of the 1537 "Matthew Bible", parts of which he also translates. This is the first complete authorised version of the Bible to be printed in the English language and the most influential of the early English printed Bibles, providing the basis for the later "Great Bible" and the "Authorized King James Version". Rogers' 1548 translation of Philip Melanchthon's "Weighing of the Interim", possibly translated in Deritend, is the first book by a Birmingham man known to have been printed in England.