Booker-Prize-winning novelist Graham Swift was born in London in 1949. Educated at Dulwich College, Queens' College, Cambridge, and York University, he was selected as one of the 20 'Best of Young British Novelists' in 1983. He is the author of six novels and has won the Geoffrey Faber and the James Tait Black Memorial prizes, as well as the Guardian Fiction Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in London.