D.J. Taylor was born in Norwich in 1960. He is a novelist, critic and an acclaimed biographer. His Orwell: The Life won the Whitbread Biography Prize for 2003. His most recent books are Kept: A Victorian Mystery (a Publishers Weekly Book of the Year), On the Corinthian Spirit: The Decline of Amateurism in Sport, Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940 and Ask Alice. He is married to the novelist Rachel Hore, has three children and lives in Norwich.
Brilliant...the most enjoyable and skillful biography I have read this year. --A.N. Wilson, @lt;i@gt;Literary Review@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; Outstanding...a formidable critical and imaginative intelligence at work. --Frank McLynn, @lt;i@gt;Evening Standard@lt;/i@gt;