Jasper Fforde was born on 11 January 1961 and is an English novelist, whose first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001.
10 Facts About Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde is known mainly for his Thursday Next novels, but has published two books in the loosely connected Nursery Crime series and the first books of two other independent series: The Last Dragonslayer and Shades of Grey.
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Jasper Fforde was born in London on 11 January 1961, the son of John Standish Jasper Fforde, the 24th Chief Cashier for the Bank of England.
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Jasper Fforde is a grandson of the Polish political activist, Joseph Retinger, and a great-grandson of the journalist E D Morel.
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Jasper Fforde worked on a number of films, including The Trial, Quills, GoldenEye, The Mask of Zorro, and Entrapment.
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Jasper Fforde published his first novel, The Eyre Affair, in 2001.
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Jasper Fforde's published books include a series of novels starring the literary detective Thursday Next: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten, First Among Sequels, One of our Thursdays Is Missing and The Woman Who Died a Lot.
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Jasper Fforde won the Wodehouse prize for comic fiction in 2004 for The Well of Lost Plots.
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In 2009, Jasper Fforde published a story in the Welsh edition of Big Issue magazine called "We are all alike".
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Jasper Fforde has an interest in aviation and owns and flies a Rearwin Skyranger.