David John Taylor (born 1960) is a British critic, novelist and biographer. After attending school in Norwich, he read modern history at St John's College, Oxford, and has received the 2003 Whitbread Biography Award for his biography of George Orwell. His novel Derby Day was longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize. He was previously a member of the Norwich Writers' Circle. He lives in Norwich and contributes to The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, New Statesman, The Spectator, Private Eye and Literary Review, among other publications. Works Great Eastern Land: from the notebooks of David Castell (1986), novel A Vain Conceit: British Fiction in the 1980s (1989) Other People: Portraits From The 90's (1990), with Marcus Berkmann Real Life (1992), novel After the War: The Novel and England since 1945 (1993) English Settlement (1996), novel After Bathing at Baxter's (1997), short stories Trespass (1998), novel Thackeray (1999), biography The Comedy Man (2002), novel Pretext 6: Punk of Me (2002), guest editor Orwell (2003), biography Kept (2006), novel On The Corinthian Spirit: The Decline of Amateurism In Sport (2006) Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918–1940 (2007) Ask Alice (2009), novel At the Chime of a City Clock (2010), novel Derby Day (2011), novel Secondhand Daylight (2012), novel The Windsor Faction (2013), novel Wrote for Luck (2015), stories. Galley Beggar Press The New Book of Snobs (2016) The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England since 1918 (2016) Rock and Roll is Life (2018), novel Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature, 1939–1951 (2019), collective biography Prizes and honours 1998: Longlisted for Booker Prize for his novel Trespass 1999: Winner of a Grinzane Cavour Prize for , the Italian translation of his novel English Settlement 2003: Winner of the Whitbread Prize for biography for Orwell: The Life 2011: Longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, for his novel Derby Day. 2014: The Windsor Faction winner of the Sidewise Award (tied with Bryce Zabel's Surrounded by Enemies: What If Kennedy Survived Dallas?). References External links Official website 1960 births Living people 20th-century biographers 20th-century British novelists 21st-century British novelists Alumni of St John's College, Oxford British biographers British literary critics British male novelists Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature George Orwell People educated at Norwich School Private Eye contributors Sidewise Award winners Male biographers