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Sam Leith (born 1 January 1974 in Paddington, London) is an English author, journalist and literary editor of The Spectator.

Sam Leith
Born	(1974-01-01) 1 January 1974 (age 48) Paddington, London, England
Occupation	Journalist, columnist, novelist
Alma mater	Magdalen College, Oxford
Period	1996 to present
Relatives	Prue Leith (Aunt)[1]

After an education at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, Leith worked at the revived satirical magazine Punch, before moving to the Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph,[2] where he served as literary editor until 2008. He now writes for several publications, including the Financial Times, Prospect, The Spectator, The Wall Street Journal Europe and The Guardian.[3] He had a regular column in the Monday London Evening Standard.[4] and appeared as a panellist on BBC Two's The Review Show.[5]

Leith has published several works of non-fiction, including Dead Pets, Sod's Law, You Talkin' to Me? and a book of poetry entitled Our Times in Rhymes: A Prosodical Chronicle of Our Damnable Age[6] The Coincidence Engine,[7] his first novel, was published in April 2011. Leith succeeded Mark Amory as literary editor of The Spectator in September 2014[8] and was a judge on the panel of the 2015 Man Booker Prize, won by Marlon James with A Brief History of Seven Killings. In November 2016, Leith was named the winner of the Columnist of the Year award at The Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards.[9]

Published books

• Dead Pets: Eat Them, Stuff Them, Love Them (Canongate, 2005)
• Daddy, Is Timmy in Heaven Now? (Canongate, 2006)
• Sod's Law: Why Life Always Falls Butter Side Down (Atlantic, 2009)
• The Coincidence Engine (Bloomsbury, 2011)
• You Talkin' to Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama (Profile Books, 2011)
• Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama (Basic Books, 2012) – US edition
• Write to the Point: How To Be Clear, Correct and Persuasive on the Page (Profile Books, 2017)
• Write to the Point: A Master Class on the Fundamentals of Writing for Any Purpose (The Experiment, 2018) – US edition
• Our Times in Rhymes: A Prosodical Chronicle of Our Damnable Age, illus. Edith Pritchett (Square Peg, 2019), OCLC 1129688625

References

External links

• The Comment Awards 2018 > Shortlist, Popular Columnist of the Year
• The Samuel Johnson Prize Judging Committee
• Sam Leith, 2015 judge, at the Man Booker Prize (archived 2016-01-27)
• Sam Leith at Library of Congress Authorities, with 6 catalogue records

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