(1974-01-01) 1 January 1974 (age 50) Paddington, London, England
Occupation
Journalist, columnist, novelist
Alma mater
Magdalen College, Oxford
Period
1996–present
Parents
Penny Junor James Leith
Relatives
Prue Leith (aunt)[1] Danny Kruger (cousin)
Sam Leith (born 1 January 1974) is an English author, journalist and literary editor of The Spectator.
After an education at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, Leith worked at the revived satirical magazine Punch, before moving to the Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph,[2] where he served as literary editor until 2008. He now writes for several publications, including the Financial Times, Prospect, The Spectator, The Wall Street Journal Europe and The Guardian.[3] He had a regular column in the Monday London Evening Standard.[4] and appeared as a panellist on BBC Two's The Review Show.[5] Since January 2024 he has written a monthly Spectator column on computer gaming.[6]
Leith has published several works of non-fiction, including Dead Pets, Sod's Law, You Talkin' to Me? and a book of poetry entitled Our Times in Rhymes: A Prosodical Chronicle of Our Damnable Age[7]The Coincidence Engine,[8] his first novel, was published in April 2011. Leith succeeded Mark Amory as literary editor of The Spectator in September 2014[9] and was a judge on the panel of the 2015 Man Booker Prize, won by Marlon James with A Brief History of Seven Killings. In November 2016, Leith was named the winner of the Columnist of the Year award at The Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards.[10]
^Leith, Sam (29 August 2017). "What it was like to be taught to cook by my aunt - and GBBO judge - Prue Leith". Evening Standard. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
^Daily Telegraph columns
^The Guardian contributor page
^Evening Standard columns Archived 3 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine
^The Review Show
^Leith, Sam (6 January 2024). "Computer games aren't a total waste of time". The Spectator. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
^Charlotte Higgins You Talkin' to Me? by Sam Leith - review The Guardian, 13 October 2011
^Killian Fox The Coincidence Engine by Sam Leith – review The Guardian, 3 April 2011
^Literary Editor Mark Amory retires from The Spectator, but will he be replaced?, Melville House Publishing, 19 September 2014
^The Comment Awards 2017 #eiCA17 brought to you by Editorial Intelligence Archived 29 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Winners 2016
SamLeith (born 1 January 1974) is an English author, journalist and literary editor of The Spectator. After an education at Eton and Magdalen College...
the television programme moved to Channel 4. Leith was born in Cape Town, South Africa. Her father, SamLeith, worked for African Explosives, a subsidiary...
ex-restaurateur James Leith (the brother of Prue) in 1970. She has four children with her husband; their eldest son is the journalist SamLeith. Junor, Penny;...
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Haunted by a Lost Film". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 July 2020. Sam, Leith (11 July 2020). "Charlie Kaufman: 'Making people laugh makes me feel validated...
Ronson's in 2007. He writes observational columns, often about his wife. SamLeith of The Guardian noted that "Dowling's a very fresh and smart writer, as...
property developer Rayne Kruger and restaurateur and television presenter Prue Leith, Kruger was educated at Eton College, subsequently studying history at the...
into two, who then wander off to lead their own lives", Seligman writes. SamLeith identifies the same theme: "The book is shot through with doubling, or...
stubbornness, greed, foul language, jealousy, arrogance, pride, and boasting. SamLeith (23 May 2013). "Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing by Melissa Mohr...
screenplays, and directed several short films. Irvine Welsh was born in Leith, the port area of the Scottish capital Edinburgh. He states that he was...
States: Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 104–105, 118. ISBN 1578066697. SamLeith (14 February 2002). "My role in father's fraud, by Le Carré". The Telegraph...
watching TV; he asks again and Lisa says 'We said MEH! M-E-H, meh?!'" SamLeith, writing in The Daily Telegraph, described the addition of the word, following...
Sebastian Faulks, Jeremy Lee, Angela Hartnett, Jackie Kay, Ian Rankin, SamLeith, Dr Frank Tallis, Justine Picardie, Stephen Page and Kate Mosse. Gaunt...
novel' the future of fiction?", SamLeith compared Tom McCarthy's The Making of Incarnation with Dave Eggers' The Every. Leith wrote, "The question ultimately...
lists of victims featuring main and incidental characters from the plot. SamLeith, in the Financial Times, argues, "Heroin addiction is there not as a metaphor...
self-destructive impulse." In an article for The Guardian in 2011, the journalist SamLeith wrote of Richard's lack of commercial support among radio stations: "His...
soft-core pornography in its schedule. In January 2010, The Guardian's SamLeith wrote that The Jack Docherty Show had "died a death", musing: "I'm not...
2022 Booker Prize Shortlisted for British Fantasy Award for Best Novella SamLeith of The Daily Telegraph gave it five out of five ratings, Anna Robinson...
reassurance as "and sheep may safely graze" Leith, Sam (2013). "Feral, by Geoge Monbiot – review: SamLeith enjoys a vision of Britain where sheep may...
he should be getting out of the house a bit more." In Literary Review, SamLeith wrote: "The Humbling is just as its title suggests. Not the tragedy its...
Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Retrieved 11 June 2013. "SamLeith enjoys a vision of Britain where sheep may no longer safely graze". The...
it "brilliantly funny" and "terribly clever", while in the Spectator, SamLeith called it a "complete joy"; similarly, Neil Gaiman found it to be "really...
English-language translation in 2016 by MacLehose Press) was characterised by SamLeith in The Financial Times as "a sort of cross between The Pilgrim's Progress...
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