Andrew Wilson

Andrew Wilson is an award-winning biographer, novelist and journalist. In 2003, his first book, Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith (Bloomsbury) won an Edgar Allan Poe Award and the LAMBDA Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. Since then he has written the biographies Harold Robbins: The Man Who Invented Sex (Bloomsbury), currently being developed for TV/film; Mad Girl’s Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted (Simon & Schuster), which was a Radio 4 Book of the Week; Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin (Simon & Schuster), optioned by Damian Jones and Pathé; and the group biography, Shadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived (Simon & Schuster).  His 2007 psychological thriller The Lying Tongue was shortlisted for the Jelf First Novel award. In 2017, he published A Talent for Murder (Simon & Schuster), the first book in a series of crime novels featuring Agatha Christie as sleuth. The other novels in the series are A Different Kind of Evil (2018), Death in a Desert Land (2019) and I Saw Him Die (2020). The novels are published by Simon & Schuster in the UK and US, and in numerous territories around the world. Andrew is also the author of the psychological thrillers Five Strangers and Murder Grove (HarperFiction),which he wrote under the name E. V. Adamson. He is a tutor on the Faber Academy crime course and a mentor on the Gold Dust creative writing scheme. He is also a judge for the 2021 Costa Biography Prize. His journalism has appeared in the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Tatler, Observer, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Smithsonian and the Washington Post. He is a frequent broadcaster and has appeared on BBC Front Row, Great Lives, Woman’s Hour, the Today programme and Sky News.