David Mitchell

David Mitchell (born 1969 in Southport, Lancashire) is a British writer. He studied English and American literature at the University of Kent, where he earned a master’s degree in comparative literature. Before pursuing a writing career, he taught English in Sicily and Japan, including at Hiroshima University. His best-known works include “Ghostwritten,” “Cloud Atlas,” “The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet,” and “The Bone Clocks.” Mitchell has received, among other honors, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and the World Fantasy Award, and has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. “Cloud Atlas” was adapted for film in 2012 by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.