Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. He is the award-winning, bestselling author of fifteen novels, including What a Carve Up!, The Rotters' Club, Middle England and, most recently, The Proof of My Innocence. He has won the Costa Novel Award, the Prix du Livre Europeen, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix Medicis tranger and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, among many others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into twenty-two languages. Jonathan Coe lives in London.
Thank goodness for Jonathan Coe Scotland on Sunday Probably the best English novelist of his generation Nick Hornby on Coe Everything a novel ought to be: courageous, challenging, funny, sad - and peopled with a fine troupe of characters The Times (on 'What a Carve Up!') Coe has huge powers of observation and enormous literary panache Sunday Times