Jake Wallis Simons is a novelist, journalist and graphic artist. His acclaimed first novel, The Exiled Times of a Tibetan Jew, was named by the Independent on Sunday as a Book of the Year. His second novel, The English German Girl — about the Kindertransport — will be published by Polygon in Spring 2011. His comics have been commissioned by the Times, for whom he writes regularly on religion and Israel, arts and culture, child development and lifestyle. He is also a contributor to the Guardian, the Independent on Sunday and other publications, as well as BBC Radio 4′s From Our Own Correspondent.

Born in London in 1978, Jake was awarded a first class degree in English from St Peter’s College, Oxford, before undertaking a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Jake is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts, and lives with his family in Winchester.