Sam Leith

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
Paddington, London, England
OccupationJournalist, columnist, novelist
Alma materMagdalen College, Oxford
Period1996 to present
RelativesPrue 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 appears as a panellist on BBC Two's The Review Show.[5]

Leith has published three works of non-fiction, Dead Pets, Sod's Law and You Talkin' to Me?[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
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References
  1. Leith, Sam (29 August 2017). "What it was like to be taught to cook by my aunt - and GBBO judge - Prue Leith". Evening Standard. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
  2. Daily Telegraph columns
  3. The Guardian contributor page
  4. Evening Standard columns Archived 3 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  5. The Review Show
  6. Charlotte Higgins You Talkin' to Me? by Sam Leith - review The Guardian, 13 October 2011
  7. Killian Fox The Coincidence Engine by Sam Leith – review The Guardian, 3 April 2011
  8. Literary Editor Mark Amory retires from The Spectator, but will he be replaced?, Melville House Publishing, September 19, 2014
  9. The Comment Awards 2017 #eiCA17 brought to you by Editorial Intelligence Archived 29 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Winners 2016


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