Simon mawer author biography example

British author (born 1948)

Simon Mawer (MOR; born 1948^[1]) is a British author who lives in Italy.

Life and work

Born in England and educated at Millfield School in Somerset and at Brasenose College, Oxford, Mawer took a degree in Zoology and has worked as a biology teacher for most of his life.

Simon mawer author biography example

He published his first novel, Chimera, (Hamish Hamilton, 1989) at the comparatively late age of forty-one. It won the McKitterick Prize for a first novel by an author over the age of forty. Mendel's Dwarf (1997) followed three works of modest success and established him as a writer of note on both sides of the Atlantic.^{[citation needed]}The New York Times described it as a "thematically ambitious and witty novel".^[2]Uzo optioned film rights, and then later Barbra Streisand optioned them.

The novels The Gospel of Judas (2000) and The Fall (2003) came next, followed by Swimming to Ithaca (2006), a novel partially inspired