Francis Spufford

Francis Spufford is an English author and writing teacher whose first novel, Golden Hill, received critical acclaim and won the Costa Book Award for First Novel, the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Ondaatje Prize. His fiction includes Light Perpetual, a literary coming-of-age novel, and Cahokia Jazz, an alternate-history detective story set in 1920s America where indigenous peoples flourished. He also writes nonfiction history, including Red Plenty. Spufford was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007.