Sam Leith

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

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'', 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''. He had a regular column in the Monday edition of the London ''Evening Standard''. and appeared as a panelist on BBC Two's ''The Review Show''. Since January 2024, he has written a monthly ''Spectator'' column on computer gaming.

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'' ''The Coincidence Engine'', his first novel, was published in April 2011. Leith succeeded Mark Amory as literary editor of ''The Spectator'' in September 2014, where he described himself as "this magazine’s token wishy-washy centre-left liberal". He 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. Provided by Wikipedia