17 Facts About Sebastian Faulks

Sebastian Charles Faulks was born on 20 April 1953 and is a British novelist, journalist and broadcaster.

Sebastian Faulks was a team captain on BBC Radio 4 literary quiz The Write Stuff.

Sebastian Faulks's father was a decorated soldier, who later became a solicitor and circuit judge.

Sebastian Faulks's uncle was Sir Neville Faulks, a High Court judge.

Sebastian Faulks was educated at Elstree School, Reading and went on to Wellington College, Berkshire.

Sebastian Faulks read English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, of which he was made an Honorary Fellow in 2008.

Sebastian Faulks commented that his team was most probably hampered by a trip to the pub before the show, as recommended by the show's producer.

Sebastian Faulks continued to work as a journalist, becoming the first literary editor of The Independent in 1986.

Sebastian Faulks became deputy editor of the Independent on Sunday in 1989; in the same year he published The Girl at the Lion d'Or, the first of his historical novels set in France.

Sebastian Faulks wrote for various newspapers as a freelancer for the next ten years.

Sebastian Faulks has since published eight novels, the most recent being Where My Heart Used to Beat, Paris Echo and Snow Country.

Sebastian Faulks was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1993 and appointed CBE for services to literature in 2002.

Sebastian Faulks was a regular team captain on BBC Radio 4's literary quiz The Write Stuff.

In 2011 Sebastian Faulks presented a four-part BBC Two series called Sebastian Faulks on Fiction, looking at the British novel and its characters.

Sebastian Faulks wrote a series tie-in book of the same name.

Sebastian Faulks is best known for his three novels set in early twentieth-century France.

However, in honourably failing to depict the entire state of the nation, Sebastian Faulks has memorably skewered the British literary world.