Thomas Leveritt is an Anglo-American artist who works in various media. His roots are in figurative painting, for which he has won the Carroll Medal for Portraiture from the UK's Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and other painting awards from the National Portrait Gallery. He has also won the Betty Trask Award for a first novel from the Society of Authors, as well as the Somerset Maugham Award, for his novel The Exchange-Rate Between Love and Money. Education Raised in Dallas, Texas, Tom was sent to boarding school in England at the age of 8. At 13 he won a full scholarship to Harrow School. He went on to study History at Peterhouse, Cambridge, graduating with a double First. References External links Official website of Thomas Leveritt. Interview The Guardian (2008) The Exchange-rate Between Love And Money on Amazon.co.uk 1976 births People educated at Harrow School Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge 21st-century English novelists 20th-century English painters English male painters 21st-century English painters Living people English male novelists 21st-century English male writers 20th-century English male artists 21st-century English male artists