Andrew O'Hagan was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1968 and read English at the University of Strathclyde. He is a contributing editor to the London Review of Books and Granta magazine.
In his acclaimed first book was The Missing (1995). Part of the book was adapted for radio and television as Calling Bible John and won a BAFTA award. Our Fathers (1999), his first novel, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread First Novel Award.
Andrew O'Hagan's essay 'The End of British Farming', originally published in the London Review of Books, was published as a short book in 2001. Personality (2003), won the 2003 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction).