Jim Crace

Biography

March 1, 1946: Jim Crace born at Brocket Hall, near Welwyn in Hertfordshire, UK. Raised in Enfield, North London.

1965-8: studies at the Birmingham College of Commerce as an external student of London University. College contemporaries include the novelists Gordon Burn and Patrick McGrath, and the Iranian photographer, Abbas, currently President of Magnum. Graduates with a BA Hons in English Literature.

2001: Being Dead wins the National Book Critics Circle award (USA). Crace publishes The Devil's Larder, a cumulative novel on the theme of food.

2003: publishes Six, about the actor and (unwitting) father Felix Dern, a man cursed by fertility.

200- : Crace s next book has the working title The Pest House



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