Ian Edward Sansom (born 3 December 1966) is an English novelist, best known as the author of the Mobile Library Mystery Series. As of 2016 [update] , he had written four books in the series, which is projected to comprise forty-four novels. [1] [2] [3]
He is a frequent contributor to, and critic for, The Guardian [4] and the London Review of Books .[ citation needed ]
Sansom was born in Essex and educated at the Oxford and the Cambridge, where he was a fellow of Emmanuel College. He is a professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick and teaches in its writing programme. [5]
Ian Sansom is married with three children. They live in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland.[ citation needed ]