William Woodard Self (born 26 September 1961) is an English novelist, reviewer and columnist. He is known for his satirical, grotesque and fantastical novels and short stories.
Will Self was raised, in his words, in "an effortlessly dull" North London suburb by "intellectually snobbish parents". Self's father, Peter Self, was a professor in Political Sciences at the London School of Economics, and his mother who was a Jewish-American émigré. Desp...
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William Woodard Self (born 26 September 1961) is an English novelist, reviewer and columnist. He is known for his satirical, grotesque and fantastical novels and short stories.
Will Self was raised, in his words, in "an effortlessly dull" North London suburb by "intellectually snobbish parents". Self's father, Peter Self, was a professor in Political Sciences at the London School of Economics, and his mother who was a Jewish-American émigré. Despite the intellectual encouragement given by his parents, Self was an emotionally confused and self-destructive child, harming himself with cigarette ends and knives before getting into drugs in his teenage years. As mentioned on an episode of Have I Got News For You, he attended University College School, an independent school for boys in Hampstead in North London, with Hugh Dennis where they played rugby together. He later attended Christ's College Finchley.
Self was a voracious reader from a young age. At ten an interest into science fiction...
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