Geoff Dyer was born in Cheltenham, England, in 1958, and educated at the local Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Geoff lives in London. He is the author of four novels: Paris Trance, The Search, The Colour of Memory, and Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi; a critical study of John Berger, Ways of Telling; two collections of essays; and six genre defying titles, including But Beautiful, The Missing of the Somme, and Yoga For People Who Can’t Be Bothered To Do It. A selection of essays entitled Otherwise Known as the Human Condition was published in the U.S. in 2011 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and currently a visiting professor at Columbia University. A new book was published in the U.S. and U.K. in May: Another Great Day at Sea: Life aboard the USS George H W Bush.
