Clive Sinclair was born in 1948 and is the author of several novels and short stories, as well as a collection of essays on 'the facts of life and the facts of death'. Included in Granta's original list of Best Young British Novelists, he has also received a Somerset Maugham Award, the Jewish Quarterly Prize and the Macmillan Silver Pen Award for Fiction. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in St Albans.
