Sebastian Faulks

• Sebastian Faulks is the son of a decorated soldier, Peter Faulks, and is widely known for writing his bestselling narrative set before and during World War I, Birdsong. He has been a teacher and journalist before becoming a full time writer.
  
  
• Faulks' first novel, A Trick of the Light, was published in 1984 and his second, The Girl at the Lion D'or, was published in 1989. In 1993 he published Birdsong and became a household name.
  
  
• Faulks has published two novels carrying on the legacy of past writers. In 2008 he wrote a new edition to the James Bond canon in Devil May Care and his most recent book, Jeeves and the Wedding Bells is a modern pastiche of P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster novels.

Book and writing awards

British Book Awards Author of the Year 1994, Appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire "For services to Literature" in 2002 and British Book Awards Popular Fiction Award 2009 (Devil May Care).

Similar authors to Sebastian Faulks:

Joanne Harris, Pat Barker