Edward Wilson

Edward Wilson’s first home was a waterfront bar in Fell’s Point, a Baltimore neighbourhood whose residents included Billie Holiday and Edgar Alan Poe.

He went to Baltimore Poly, a school where Ta-Nehisi Coates and Dashiell Hammett were former students.

He served in Vietnam with the 5th SFGA and was decorated for his part in rescuing wounded Vietnamese soldiers from a minefield. After leaving the Army, Wilson became an expatriate and gave up US nationality to become a British citizen.

He has also lived and worked in Germany and France, and was a post-graduate student at Edinburgh University.

He is the author of eight novels, A River in May, The Envoy, The Darkling Spy, The Midnight Swimmer, A Very British Ending, The Whitehall Mandarin, South Atlantic Requiem and Portrait of the Spy as Young Man, all published by Arcadia Books. The author taught at Lowestoft College and local schools for thirty years. He lives with his wife Julia in rural Suffolk where they garden and try to identify birds. 

REVIEWS

Margaret Thatcher’s biographer, will have to revise his dewy-eyed account of the Falklands adventure if he troubles himself to read Wilson’s lacerating version of Thatcher’s lawless dishonesty in South Atlantic Requiem.. Sir David Hare, New Statesman, Wilsons War Full review here

Edward Wilson is garnering the praise and readers in England he’s long deserved… His stories are our stories, just as his own story is one of two countries nervously eyeing each other in wary allegiance. Paul French, LA Review of Books, Full review here

October thrillers round-up — from SOE agents in Lisbon to macabre murders in Leningrad. James Owen takes a look at this month’s latest crop of thrillers, Full review here

Interview with Edward Wilson by Paul Burke on Crowdcast. See interview here