Sam North
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Born | (1960-08-30) August 30, 1960 (age 63) Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom |
Nationality | British |
Occupation(s) | Novelist, screenwriter, lecturer |
Awards | Somerset Maugham Prize |
Sam North (born 30 August 1960) is a British novelist, screenwriter, and lecturer in creative writing at the University of Exeter.[1]
Early life
North was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom. He left school at 16 and worked as a groom, a motorcycle messenger, a runner on film sets, and on building sites.[2]
Career
North's first novel, The Automatic Man, won the Somerset Maugham Prize. His 2004 novel, The Unnumbered, was longlisted for the Booker Prize.[3] North has written two books about writing, Five Analogies for Fiction Writing and The Instinctive Screenplay. He works as a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Exeter.[4]
Works
- The Automatic Man (1989)
- The Unnumbered (2004)
- Five Analogies for Fiction Writing (2014)
- The Instinctive Screenplay (2017)
References
External links
- Sam North on Amazon
- Sam North at the University of Exeter