Sebastian Faulks was the first literary editor of The Independent, later deputy editor of the Independent on Sunday before leaving in 1991 to concentrate on writing.
He is the author of nine novels including the massively-successful Birdsong for which he was voted Author of the Year by the British Book Awards. In 2008, he published, Devil May Care, a James Bond novel commissioned to mark the centennial of Ian Fleming’s birth.
His tenth novel A Week in December will be published in September 2009. He lives with his wife and three children in London.
Sebastian Faulks