Clive Sinclair
Clive John Sinclair FRSL (born 1948) is a British author who has published several award-winning novels and collections of short stories, including The Lady with the Laptop and Bedbugs. He was educated at the University of East Anglia (BA, PhD), the University of California, Santa Cruz, and at the University of Exeter. He was the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for Hearts of Gold in 1981. In 1983, he was recognised in Granta's list of Best Young British Novelists. Between 1983 and 1987 he was literary editor of the Jewish Chronicle, and in 1988 he was the British Council Guest Writer-in-residence at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. He…