Expo 58: A Novel (28 page)

About the Author

Author photograph © Matilda Coe

Jonathan Coe
was born in Birmingham, England, in 1961. He is the author of ten novels, including
The Winshaw Legacy
, winner of the 1995 John
Llewellyn Rhys Prize;
The House of Sleep
, winner of the 1998 Prix Médicis Étranger;
The Rotters’ Club
, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize;
The Closed Circle
;
The Rain Before It Falls
; and
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim
. His biography of the novelist B. S. Johnson,
Like a Fiery Elephant
,
won the 2005 Samuel Johnson Prize for best nonfiction book of the year. He lives in London with his
wife and their two daughters.