Francis Spufford

Francis Spufford, FRSL (born 1964) is an English author.

Spufford was born in 1964. He is the son of the late social historian Professor Margaret Spufford (1935 - 2014) and the economic historian Professor Peter Spufford. He studied English Literature at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, gaining a BA in 1985.

He was Chief Publisher's Reader from 1987–90 for Chatto & Windus.

Spufford was a Royal Literary Fund fellow at Anglia Ruskin University from 2005 to 2007, and since 2008 has taught at Goldsmiths College in London on the MA in Creative and Life Writing there.

Spufford has specialized in works of non-fiction for most of his career, but published his first unambiguous novel in 2016.

He has also edited three anthologies: The Chatto Book of Cabbages and Kings, 1989, about lists used as a literary device, The Chatto Book of the Devil, 1993, and The Antarctic, 2008.

He lives just outside Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is a practising Christian and is married to a vicar, the Reverend Dr Jessica Martin, who is a Residentiary Canon of Ely Cathedral. In 2015, he was elected to General Synod as a lay representative of the Diocese of Ely.

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