VJ Books Presents Author David Mitchell!
 David Mitchell (born January 12, 1969) was born in Southport in Merseyside, England, and raised in Malvern, Worcestershire. He was educated at Hanley Castle High School and at the University of Kent, where he obtained a degree in English and American Literature followed by an M.A. in Comparative Literature. Mitchell lived in Sicily for a year, then moved to Hiroshima, Japan, where he taught English to technical students for eight years, before returning to England, where he could live on his earnings as a writer.
Mitchell's first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), moves around the globe, from Okinawa to Mongolia to pre-Millennial New York City, as nine narrators tell stories that interlock and intersect. Twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mitchell was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME magazine in 2007. With KA Yoshida, Mitchell co-translated from the Japanese the international bestselling memoir, The Reason I Jump.
He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children.
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David Mitchell Bibliography
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Ghostwritten - 1999
- number9dream - 2001
- Cloud Atlas - 2004
- Black Swan Green - 2006
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - 2010
- The Bone Clocks - 2014
- Slade House - 2015
Other
- The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism, 2013 (translation of Naoki Higashida's work)
David Mitchell Awards
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for best work of British literature written by an author under 35
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