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About the Author
Richard Rayner was born in Bradford, in Yorkshire, in the North of England. He achieved some
sort of education at a variety of schools, and at Cambridge University, where he read philosophy and law. He worked for years as a journalist, and as assistant editor at Time Out magazine in London, and, later, as an editor at the literary magazine Granta.
His first book, ‘Los Angeles Without A Map’, won various prizes in England, and was later turned into a feature film starring David Tennant and Julie Delpy and Vinessa Shaw. It is probably the least famous movie ever to have Johnny Depp in it.
Subsequent books ‘The Blue Suit’, a memoir which won the Esquire non-fiction award in England, and novels entitled ‘The Elephant’, ‘Murder Book’, ‘The Cloud Sketcher’ and ‘The Devil’s Wind’. His non-fiction book about a Depression era con-man, ‘Drake’s Fortune’ is currently in development for a movie. ‘A Bright and Guilty Place’ is his latest non-fiction book.
Rayner writes for the New Yorker, and has a monthly books column, Paperback Writers, for the Los Angeles Times. He has also written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Esquire, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, the Guardian, the London Times, and numerous other publications.
He lives in Los Angeles, in Venice not too far from the beach, with his wife., Paivi, and their two children, Harry and Charlie. He is a frequent visitor to Finland, the country of Paivi’s birth, and a lifelong supporter of Manchester United.
A Conversation with Richard Rayner, Author, A BRIGHT AND GUILTY PLACE
Read more on other stuff that Richard Rayner has written, relating to Los Angeles and ‘A Bright and Guilty Place’ |
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