Sebastian Faulks

Sebastian Faulks

Sebastian Charles Faulks (born April 20, 1953 in Newbury , England) is a British journalist and best-selling novelist.

Life

Faulks is the son of judge Peter Ronals and his wife Pamela (Lawless) Faulks. His brother is Edward Faulks, Baron Faulks .

He studied literature and history at Emmanuel College , Cambridge and received a Bachelor of Arts (with honors) in 1974. From 1975 he taught English and French at the International School of London . In 1979 he switched to journalism and worked for the Daily Telegraph . In 1983 he moved to the features section of the Sunday Telegraph and in 1986 went to the Independent as feature section editor . In 1989 he became deputy editor-in-chief of the Independent on Sunday . In addition, Faulks worked as a broadcaster for the BBC and from 1978 to 1981 as an editor for the New Fiction Society .

In 1989 he married his former assistant at the Independent Veronica Youlton. The couple has three children.

Works

Novels

• A trick of the light . Bodley Head, London 1984, ISBN 978-0-370-30589-9
• The Girl at the Lion d'Or . Hutchinson, London 1989 ISBN 978-0-09-173451-0
  • The girl from the Lion d'Or . Schöffling, Frankfurt 1998 ISBN 3-89561-641-9
• A Fool's alphabet . Hutchinson, London 1992 ISBN 978-0-316-27547-7
  • The fool's alphabet . Goldmann, Munich 2000 ISBN 3-442-44510-8
• Birdsong . Hutchinson, London 1993 ISBN 978-0-679-43545-7
  • Singing from the great fire . Schöffling, Frankfurt 1997 ISBN 3-89561-640-0
• Charlotte Gray . Hutchinson, London 1998 ISBN 978-0-09-178442-3
  • The love of Charlotte Gray . Bertelsmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-570-00337-X
    See also: Bad Sex in Fiction Award
• On Green Dolphin Street . Hutchinson, London 2001 ISBN 978-0-09-180210-3
  • The dream dancers . Bertelsmann, Munich 2003 ISBN 3-570-00613-1
• Human traces . Hutchinson, London 2005 ISBN 978-0-09-179455-2
• Engleby . Hutchinson, London 2007 ISBN 978-0-09-179571-9
• Devil May Care . Penguin, London 2008 ISBN 0-7181-5376-6
  • Death is just the beginning. A James Bond novel . Heyne, Munich 2008 ISBN 3-453-26602-1
• A Week in December . Hutchinson, London 2009 ISBN 978-0-09-179445-3
• A possible life . Henry Holt, 2012 ISBN 978-0-8050-9730-6
• Jeeves and the Wedding Bells . Hutchinson, London 2013 ISBN 978-0-09-195404-8
• Where My Heart Used to Beat . Hutchinson, London 2015 ISBN 978-0-09193683-9
• The great madness . Mare, Hamburg 2017 ISBN 978-3-86648-258-6

Nonfiction

• The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives , Hutchinson, London 1996, ISBN 978-0-09-179211-4

Film adaptations

• 2001: The Love of Charlotte Gray

Web links

• Scores by Sebastian Faulks in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sebastian Faulks Biography , jrank.org