Howard Jacob­son has writ­ten fif­teen nov­els and sev­en works of non-fic­tion. He won the Bollinger Every­man Wode­house Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Man Book­er Prize for The Fin­kler Ques­tion and was also short­list­ed for the prize in 2014 for his nov­el J. He lives in London.