Alex Preston
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Alex Preston (born 1979) is an English author and journalist.
Early life and education
Preston was born on January 18, 1979, in the seaside town of Worthing, West Sussex.
He attended Sompting Abbotts Preparatory School and then received a grant to Lancing College's independent boarding school.
Preston earned his PhD in English Literature from University College London after graduating from Hertford College, Oxford.
Personal life
Alex Preston is Samuel Preston's brother, and the former contestant of The Ordinary Boys and Celebrity Big Brother. Samuel Hynes, a Princeton University English professor and literary critic, is his grandson.
Preston is a cricketer who plays for Authors Cricket Club and also contributed to the team's book The Authors XI: A Season of English Cricket from Hackney to Hambledon. "Do you think you were out?" He became well-known as a player-umpire for requesting of fellow novelist Richard Beard. In reaction to a tense LBW appeal, the LBW appeal was dismissed. At their annual dinner, he was given the "Decision of the Season" award for this.
He and his wife and two children live in Kent, England.
Career
Preston was working as an investment banker in the early 2000s when the banking market collapsed and he turned to teaching and writing.
Preston's first novel, This Bleeding City, was published by Faber and Faber in March 2010. The novel won the Spear's Best First Novel Prize, the Edinburgh International Book Festival Readers' First Book Award, and was chosen as one of Waterstone's New Voices 2010. It has been translated into twelve languages.
His second novel, The Revelations, was published in February 2012, while his third, In Love and War, was featured on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime.
He is also the co-author of As Kingfishers Catch Fire, a memoir and anthology of literature about British birds.
Preston reviews books for a number of national newspapers and magazines and was a regular panelist on BBC2's The Review Show. He is an English lecturer at the University of Kent.