Mr Sebastian Charles Faulks
CBE, MA, Hon DLitt (UEL), FRSL
Honorary Fellow
Sebastian Faulks was born in 1953, and educated at Elstree School and Wellington College before coming up to Emmanuel (1971-4), where he read English. He was a reporter on the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, literary editor of the Independent and a columnist on the Independent on Sunday and the Guardian. He turned to writing books full-time in 1991. His novels include Human Traces, Charlotte Gray, Birdsong and Engleby. He is also the author of a book of literary parodies, Pistache, and a biographical study, The Fatal Englishman.