Tommy Was Here

Simon Corrigan is a British author born in Barnsley in 1964. He studied at Chetham's School of Music, read English at King's College, Cambridge, and later pursued music at the Paris Conservatoire before writing his semi-autobiographical debut novel Tommy Was Here (1993), which won the Betty Trask Award. dysfunction.Kirkus Reviews After living in various European cities, he settled in Budapest, edited memoirs on Hungary's communist decline in 2013, and was researching books on vampirism and Empress Elisabeth in 2004.