Amanda Craig was born on 1959 and is a British novelist, critic and journalist.
13 Facts About Amanda Craig
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Amanda Craig's parents were British journalist, author and UN Press Officer Dennis Craig and South African journalist Zelda Wolhuter, who left Johannesburg following the Sharpeville Massacre and the rise of apartheid.
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Amanda Craig studied at Bedales School and read English Literature at Clare College, Cambridge.
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Amanda Craig has contributed to The Observer, The Guardian, the New Statesman and BBC Radio 4.
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Amanda Craig worked on the staff of Tatler and the Sunday Express before becoming a freelance feature writer, literary critic and columnist for The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times, the Daily Mail, The Independent, and The Observer.
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Amanda Craig judged the Whitbread Novel Award in 2005, the Booktrust Teen Book Award in 2008, and the 2018 Wingate Prize.
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Amanda Craig has written a cycle of nine interconnected novels dealing with contemporary British society.
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Amanda Craig has been cited as a state-of-the-nation novelist by Sameer Rahim in Prospect and by The Sunday Times.
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Usually, Amanda Craig takes a minor character and makes him or her the protagonist of her next work.
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Amanda Craig is interested in fairytales and children's fiction, and was one of the first critics to praise JK Rowling, Philip Pullman, Cressida Cowell, Stephenie Meyer, Anthony Horowitz, Malorie Blackman and Suzanne Collins.
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Amanda Craig gave the annual Trollope Society lecture in 2022 and the 2023 Dorothy L Sayers lecture, published in the Daily Telegraph stating that both had influenced her novels and her life-choices.
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Amanda Craig has written forewords for the 2021 Abacus reissues of 5 novels by Beryl Bainbridge - Every Man For Himself, Master Georgie, The Birthday Boys, According to Queenie and The Bottle Factory Outing, 2 novels by Eva Ibbotson - The Secret Countess and A Glove Shop In Vienna, reissued by Macmillan - plus Alison Lurie's Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs.
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Amanda Craig is married to British economist Rob Cohen, with whom she has two children.