Sebastian Faulks, Esq, CBE, FRSL

Career: writer; ed New Fiction Soc 1978-81, reporter Daily Telegraph 1978-82, feature writer Sunday Telegraph 1983-86, literary ed The Independent 1986-89; Independent on Sunday: dep ed 1989-90, assoc ed 1990-91; columnist: The Guardian 1992-98, Evening Standard 1997-99, Mail on Sunday 1999-2000; wrote and presented Churchill's Secret Army (Channel 4) 2000, panelist The Write Stuff (BBC Radio 4) 1998-, Faulks on Fiction (BBC 2) 2011; Author of the Year British Book Awards 1995; Hon DLitt Tavistock Clinic/Univ of E London 2007; hon fell Emmanuel Coll Cambridge 2007; FRSL 1995

Books and Publications: A Trick of the Light (1984), The Girl at the Lion d'Or (1989), A Fool's Alphabet (1992), Birdsong (1993), The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives (1996), Charlotte Gray (1998), The Vintage Book of War Stories (ed, 1999), On Green Dolphin Street (2001), Human Traces (2005), Pistache (2006), Engleby (2007), Devil May Care (2008), A Week in December (2009), Faulks on Fiction (2011)