Benjamin Johncock

About

Benjamin Johncock was born in England in 1978.

His debut novel, The Last Pilot, was published in 2015 by Picador (USA) and Myriad Editions (UK).

It won the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award in 2016 and was shortlisted for the East Anglian Book of the Year. It was one of the Observer’s Hidden Gems, People magazine’s Best New Books, a Barnes & Noble Pick, an Amazon Pick, an Indie Next Pick and Ian Rankin’s Book of the Year.

The Boston Globe said something about “the blazing beauty of a new literary star” and The Spectator mentioned “a major new talent” and he can’t remember what the Washington Post said.

His award-winning short stories have been published by The Fiction Desk, The Junket, Comma Press and Storgy, and his journalism has appeared in the Guardian, The Spectator and many others.

He’s a creative writing mentor, teaches creative writing for the National Centre for Writing, and is on the editorial board of The Letters Page, a literary journal edited by Jon McGregor.

He is the recipient of several Arts Council England grants and an American Literary Merit Award.

He lives in Norwich with his wife, his daughter, and his son.

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