John Lanchester

John Henry Lanchester (born 25 February 1962 in Hamburg) is a British journalist and novelist who grew up in Hong Kong and was educated in England at Gresham's School and St John's College, Oxford. His most notable novels include The Debt to Pleasure (1996, winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award and Hawthornden Prize), Capital (2012), and The Wall (2019, Booker Prize longlist); key non-fiction works include Family Romance (2007) memoir and Whoops! (2010) on the financial crisis. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (2002) and contributing editor at the London Review of Books.