About the Author
Richard Beard’s six novels include Lazarus is Dead, Dry Bones and Damascus, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Acts of the Assassins was shortlisted for the UK Goldsmiths Prize, for novels that ‘extend the possibilities of the novel form’.
Beard’s five works of narrative non-fiction include his memoir The Day That Went Missing, a US National Book Critics Circle finalist and winner of the 2018 PEN Ackerley Award for literary autobiography. His most recent memoir, Sad Little Men, was a #11 UK Sunday Times Bestseller.
He is a contributor to national UK newspapers and magazines and has held visiting teaching posts at the University of East Anglia and the University of Tokyo. In 2023 he was the Briena Staunton Visiting Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin.
No AI was used in the writing of The Universal Turing Machine.
