Sebastian Faulks
Sebastian Faulks was born in April 1953. He was brought up in Newbury, Berkshire, and educated at Wellington College and Cambridge (the background for much of his recently published novel Engleby). Before resolving to become a full-time writer in 1991, he worked as a journalist for the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph (1978-86) and as Literary Editor and Deputy Editor of the Independent (1986-91). His "French trilogy" of novels - The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray (1989-1997) - established him in the front rank of British novelists: UK sales of Birdsong exceed 2,500,000 copies and for this book he was named "Author of the Year" by the British Book Awards in 1995. Other novels include A Fool's Alphabet (1992), On Green Dolphin Street (2001), Human Traces (2005) and Engleby (2007) . His biographical study of three doomed young men of the 20th century, The Fatal Englishman was published in 1996.
Sebastian Faulks lives in London with his wife and their three children.