Ned Beauman (born 1985) [1] is a British novelist, journalist and screenwriter. [2] The author of five novels, [3] he was selected as one of the Best of Young British Novelists by Granta magazine in 2013. [4]
Born in London, Beauman is the son of Persephone Books founder Nicola Beauman and economist Christopher Beauman. [5] He attended Winchester College and studied philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge. [6] [7] His influences include Jorge Luis Borges, Raymond Chandler and John Updike, along with more recent writers such as Michael Chabon, William Gibson and David Foster Wallace. [8] All of his novels are published in the UK by Sceptre. In addition to novels, he has contributed journalism and literary criticism to The Guardian , The White Review , the London Review of Books, Cabinet and Fantastic Man .