Sebastian Faulks

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sebastian Faulks
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Apr 20, 1953(1953-04-20)
Age	71
Birthplace	Conington
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Aries

Sebastian Faulks Biography

Sebastian Faulks is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on April 20, 1953 in Conington, England, United Kingdom. British writer and broadcaster who was famous for his works of historical fiction set in French setting. His most well-known books include Birdsong, Charlotte Gray, and The Girl at the Lion d’Or.

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Sebastian Charles Faulks CBE FRSL (born 20 April 1953) is a British novelist, journalist and broadcaster. He is best known for his historical novels set in France – The Girl at the Lion d’Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray. He has also published novels with a contemporary setting, most recently A Week in December (2009) and Paris Echo, (2018) and a James Bond continuation novel, Devil May Care (2008), as well as a continuation of P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves series, Jeeves and the Wedding Bells (2013). He was a team captain on BBC Radio 4 literary quiz The Write Stuff.

After graduating, Faulks worked as a teacher at a private school in Camden Town, and then as a journalist for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph. Faulks’s first novel, A Trick of the Light, was published in 1984. He continued to work as a journalist, becoming the first literary editor of The Independent in

1986. He 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. In 1991 he left The Independent. He wrote for various newspapers as a freelancer for the next ten years.

Together with his wife Veronica and his wife Veronica, he had two sons William and Arthur William and Arthur and one daughter named Holly.

Sebastian Faulks Net Worth

Sebastian Faulks is one of the richest Novelist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sebastian Faulks 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a school teacher as well as a journalist and newspaper editor prior to pursuing his full-time job as a writer of historical fiction.

He was a guest in “The Write Stuff,” the most popular BBC Radio quiz show.

Faulks was born on 20 April 1953 in Donnington, Berkshire, to Peter Faulks and Pamela (née Lawless). His father was a decorated soldier (he won the Military Cross), who later became a solicitor and circuit judge. His brother Edward Faulks, Baron Faulks QC, a barrister, became a Conservative Government Minister in January 2014 in the Ministry of Justice. His uncle was Sir Neville Faulks, a High Court judge.

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Who is Sebastian Faulks Dating?

According to our records, Sebastian Faulks married to Veronica Faulks. As of December 1, 2023, Sebastian Faulks’s is not dating anyone.

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In 2001 Charlotte Gray was made into a film starring Cate Blanchett and directed by Gillian Armstrong. In 2010 a stage version of Birdsong, adapted by Rachel Wagstaff (who had previously adapted The Girl at the Lion d’Or for radio) and directed by Trevor Nunn, opened at the Comedy Theatre in London; the production ran for only 4 months. It was subsequently rewritten by Wagstaff and made four successful nationwide tours. In 2012, Birdsong was made into a two-part BBC TV serial, written by Abi Morgan, directed by Philip Martin and starring Eddie Redmayne. This followed several attempts to film the novel.

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Sebastian Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Sebastian Faulks celebrates birthday on April 20 of every year.

In 2007, Faulks published Engleby. Set in Cambridge in the 1970s, it is narrated by Cambridge University fresher Mike Engleby. Engleby is a loner, and the reader is led to suspect that he may be unreliable, particularly when a fellow student disappears. Faulks says of the novel’s genesis, “I woke up one morning with this guy’s voice in my head. And he was just talking, dictating, almost. And when I got to work, I wrote it down. I didn’t know what the hell was going on; this wasn’t an idea for a book”. It was remarked upon as a change of direction for Faulks, both in terms of the near-contemporary setting and in the decision to use a first-person narrator. The Daily Telegraph said the book was “distinguished by a remarkable intellectual energy: a narrative verve, technical mastery of the possibilities of the novel form and vivid sense of the tragic contingency of human life.”

How old is Sebastian Faulks?

69 years (April 20, 1953)

Where did Sebastian Faulks go to school?

Education

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Is Birdsong a good book?

Birdsong is one of Faulks’s best received works , earning both critical and popular praise, including being listed as the 13th favourite book in Britain in a 2003 BBC survey called the Big Read.

What nationality is Sebastian Faulks?

British