Biographie de Sebastian Faulks
After reading English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Sebastian Faulks worked as a teacher before becoming a journalist, joining first the Daily Telegraph and then the Independent, where he was Literary Editor at its launch in 1986. He left journalism to write full time in 1991. He is now the author of fifteen novels and three works of non-fiction. He was appointed CBE for services to literature in 2002.
From 2013 to 2018, he was part of the Government Advisory Group on the Commemoration of the First World War. In 2007 he was given an honorary doctorate by the Tavistock Clinic for his contribution to the understanding of psychiatry and he has spoken at psychiatric conferences in Venice and London. He is a member of the Authors XI cricket team, the Boffins CC and Campden Hill LTC. He has appeared on stage professionally in the touring adaptation of Birdsong