Adam Thirlwell
Adam Thirlwell was born in 1978, and grew up in North London. His first novel, Politics, was published in 2003, and that year he was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. A book on the art of the novel, Miss Herbert, was published in 2007, and won a Somerset Maugham Award. His second novel, The Escape, was published in 2009.
