Francis Spufford
Francis Spufford began his career writing non-fiction before gradually transitioning to fiction, incorporating novelistic techniques throughout.
His debut novel, Golden Hill, was a hyperactive historical tale set in eighteenth-century New York.
He followed with Light Perpetual, a quieter exploration of ordinary London lives, longlisted for the Booker Prize.
His noir alternate-history novel Cahokia Jazz won the Sidewise Award.
His latest work, Nonesuch, marks his entry into historical fantasy.
Born in 1964 to two historians, he is married to an Anglican cathedral dean, has two daughters, and teaches writing at Goldsmiths College, London.
