Andrew Wilson is a novelist, biographer, and journalist. He has won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Biography and the Lambda Literary Award for Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith. His nonfiction books also include biographies of Sylvia Plath, Alexander McQueen, Harold Robbins, and a group biography of the survivors of the Titanic. His first novel, The Lying Tongue, was shortlisted for the Jelf First Novel Award.