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Sebastian Faulks | Author
Sebastian Faulks is a British novelist, journalist and broadcaster. He is the author of a number of award-winning novels, and is best known for his series of three books set in France – The Girl at the Lion d’Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray.
Having previously worked as a teacher in Camden Town, Faulks began as a journalist for the Telegraph, and later the Independent. In1984, he published his first novel, A Trick of the Light, and continued to write fiction alongside his journalistic career, eventually becoming a full-time author in the mid-nineties. Faulks was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1993, and appoined CBE for services to literature in 2002.
To mark the 2008 centenary of Ian Fleming’s birth, Faulks was commissioned to write a new James Bond novel. He produced Devil May Care, an immediate best-seller in the UK.
