Sam North
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Born30 August 1960
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom
OccupationsNovelist, screenwriter, lecturer
AwardsSomerset Maugham Prize
Sam North | |
|---|---|
| Born | 30 August 1960 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom |
| Occupations | Novelist, screenwriter, lecturer |
| Awards | Somerset Maugham Prize |
Sam North (born 30 August 1960) is a British novelist, screenwriter, and lecturer in creative writing at the University of Exeter.[1]
North was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom. He left school at 16 and worked as a groom, a motorcycle messenger, a runner on film sets, and on building sites.[2]
Career
North's first novel, The Automatic Man, won the Somerset Maugham Prize. His 2004 novel, The Unnumbered, was longlisted for the Booker Prize.[3] North has written two books about writing, Five Analogies for Fiction Writing and The Instinctive Screenplay. He works as a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Exeter.[4]
