The Modern Novel

Biography

Faulks was born in Newbury in 1953 and attended Cambridge University. He started his career as a teacher and a freelance writer, before getting a job as a reporter with the Daily Telegraph. He ran the book club, the New Fiction Society, before publishing his first novel A Trick of the Light in 1984. He then worked as the literary editor of the Independent. He had his biggest success with Birdsong, a superb novel set in World War 1. Sadly, the quality has declined since then, culminating in writing James Bond and Jeeves novels.

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