Maxim Jakubowski was born on 1944 and is an English writer of crime fiction, erotica, and science fiction, and a rock music critic.
11 Facts About Maxim Jakubowski
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Maxim Jakubowski edited the science fiction anthologies Twenty Houses of the Zodiac, for the 37th World Science Fiction Convention in Brighton, and Travelling Towards Epsilon, an anthology of French science fiction.
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Maxim Jakubowski is a reviewer having had columns in Time Out London, The Guardian and Crime Time.
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Maxim Jakubowski has worked in book publishing for many years, with managerial positions in the Virgin Group, Penguin and the Hearst Group and left following a long career to open the Murder One bookshop, the UK's first specialist crime and mystery bookstore.
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Maxim Jakubowski's novels include It's You that I Want to Kiss, Because She Thought She Loved Me, The State of Montana, On Tenderness Express, Kiss Me Sadly, Confessions of a Romantic Pornographer, I Was Waiting for You, The Louisiana Republic, The Piper's Dance, Just a Girl With a Gun and The Exopotamia Manuscript.
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For many years, Jakubowski was Chair of the Arthur C Clarke Award and is chair and judge for the Crime Writers' Association International Dagger; he is on the committee of the Crime Writers' Association and a frequent commentator on radio and TV.
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Maxim Jakubowski is a past chair of Chair of the Crime Writers' Association.
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Maxim Jakubowski has won the Karel Award for contribution to European science fiction and the Anthony Award at the Toronto Bouchercon for a best non-fiction book of the year for 'One Hundred Great Detectives'.
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Maxim Jakubowski wrote the short story "Un Avocat pour Dolores" under the pen name of "Adam Barnett-Foster".
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Maxim Jakubowski wrote a number of books on rock music during the 1980s.
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Maxim Jakubowski is a well-known critic and reviewer, having written a crime review column for Time Out, London for 10 years and the Guardian for a further 11 years, ending in 2010.