Simon Garfield is a journalist and author of an appealingly diverse and unpredictable canon of non-fiction, including the bestsellers Mauve, Just My Type, On The Map, and In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate The World.

He is a trustee of Mass Observation, and is the editor of several books of diaries from the archive, including Our Hidden Lives and A Notable Woman.

His study of Aids in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham Prize, while To The Letter was one of the inspirations for the theater shows Letters Live.

He wrote scripts for BBC radio documentaries in the early 1980s. Garfield also wrote for Time Out magazine, acting as editor from 1988 to 1989.He has written for newspapers such as The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, and The Observer, and was named Mind Journalist of the Year in 2005.

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