Francis Spufford

<p>Francis Spufford, a former <em>Sunday Times</em> Young Writer of the Year (1997), has edited two acclaimed literary anthologies and a collection of essays about the history of technology. His first book, <em>I May Be Some Time</em>, won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of 1996, the Banff Mountain Book Prize, and a Somerset Maugham Award. His second, <em>The Child That Books Built</em>, gave Neil Gaiman "the peculiar feeling that there was now a book I didn't need to write." His third book, Backroom Boys, was called "as nearly perfect as makes no difference" by the <em>Daily Telegraph</em>, and <em>Red Plenty</em> was one of Dwight Garner's <em>New York Times</em> 10 Favorite Books of 2012. Spufford is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and teaches at Goldsmiths College in London. </p>