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Book Reviewed by:This article relates to The Closed Circle
Jonathan Coe
was born in Birmingham in 1961
and was educated at Trinity
College, Cambridge. He has
taught English Poetry at Warwick
and worked as a professional
musician, writing music for jazz
and cabaret.
He is the author of about 6
novels including
The Rotters' Club
(2001) which is set in
Birmingham during the 1970s and
tells the story of a group of
school friends working on the
school magazine. It was adapted
for BBC Television in 2005. He
is also the author of
biographies about Humphrey
Bogart, James Stewart and the
novelist B. S. Johnson.
He lives in London with his wife
and their two daughters.
This "beyond the book article" relates to The Closed Circle. It originally ran in July 2005 and has been updated for the
June 2006 paperback edition.
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