| Sam North | |
| Birth Date: | 30 August 1960 |
| Birth Place: | Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom |
| Occupation: | Novelist, screenwriter, lecturer |
| Nationality: | British |
| Awards: | Somerset Maugham Prize |
Sam North (born 30 August 1960) is a British novelist, screenwriter, and lecturer in creative writing at the University of Exeter.[1]
North was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom. He left school at 16 and worked as a groom, a motorcycle messenger, a runner on film sets, and on building sites.[2]
North's first novel, The Automatic Man, won the Somerset Maugham Prize. His 2004 novel, The Unnumbered, was longlisted for the Booker Prize.[3] North has written two books about writing, Five Analogies for Fiction Writing and The Instinctive Screenplay. He works as a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Exeter.[4]