Unapologetic book francis spufford biography
Francis spufford biography...
Unapologetic book francis spufford biography
Francis Spufford
English author and teacher
Francis SpuffordFRSL (born 1964)[citation needed] is an English author and teacher of writing whose career has shifted gradually from non-fiction to fiction.
His first novel Golden Hill received critical acclaim and numerous prizes including the Costa Book Award for a first novel,[1] the Desmond Elliott Prize[2] and the Ondaatje Prize.[3] In 2007 Spufford was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Career
Spufford was chief publisher's reader from 1987–1990 for Chatto & Windus.[citation needed] He was a Royal Literary Fund fellow at Anglia Ruskin University from 2005 to 2007,[citation needed] and since 2008 has taught at Goldsmiths College in London on the MA in Creative and Life Writing there.
In 2018 he was made a professor.[4]
Spufford specialised in non-fiction for the first part of his career, but began a transition towards ficti