Francis Spufford
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Francis Spufford FRSL (born 1964) is an English author.
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[edit] Early life
He studied English Literature at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, gaining a BA in 1985.
[edit] Career
He was Chief Publisher's Reader from 1987-90 for Chatto & Windus.
Spufford was a Royal Literary Fund fellow at Anglia Ruskin University from 2005 to 2007, and since 2008 has taught at Goldsmiths College in London on the MA in Creative and Life Writing there.[1]
[edit] Publications
Spufford specializes in works of non-fiction.
- I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination, 1996 - won literary prizes including the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, Writers Guild Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year, and the Somerset Maugham Award in 1997.[2]
- The Child That Books Built, 2002
- Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin, 2003 - nominated for the Aventis Prize
He has also edited two volumes of polar literature.
His newest book is Red Plenty, published in August 2010.[3] In March 2011 it was longlisted for the Orwell Prize.
[edit] Personal life
He lives just outside Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
[edit] References
- ^ "Department of English & Comparative Literature: Francis Spufford". Goldsmiths College. http://www.gold.ac.uk/ecl/staff/f-spufford/. Retrieved 2010-12-04.
- ^ "The Somerset Maugham Awards: Past Winners". The Society of Authors. http://www.societyofauthors.org/somerset-maugham-past-winners. Retrieved 2010-12-04.
- ^ Meek, James (2010-08-08). "Red Plenty by Francis Spufford". The Observer. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/08/red-plenty-francis-spufford. Retrieved 2010-12-04.
