Author

Books by Howard Jacobson

Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester in 1942 and studied at Cambridge under F.R. Leavis. He is one of Britain's foremost comic novelists, with a body of work that includes Coming from Behind, The Mighty Walzer, and Kalooki Nights, all of which concern Jewish British life with forensic wit. The Finkler Question, published in 2010, won the Man Booker Prize and brought him a wide readership. He writes a regular column for The Independent. He has been shortlisted for the Booker multiple times and is often described as the English Philip Roth.