John Spurling is an award-winning author and a prolific playwright with thirty plays performed on stage, radio, and television, including at the National Theater in London. He is the author of The Ten Thousand Things (winner of the Walter Scott Prize). John was born in Kisumu, Kenya, then later educated at St. John's College, Oxford. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. For more information, please visit www.johnspurling.com