John Lanchester is the author of The Wall, longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2019, as well as four other novels and three works of non-fiction. His books have won the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, and the Premi Libreter. He is a contributing editor to the London Review of Books and a regular contributor to the New Yorker.