Biography

ROBERT RYAN

Robert Ryan was born in Liverpool but moved to London when he was eighteen to attend university. He lectured in natural sciences for several years before moving into journalism in the mid-1980s, first with The Face and then the Dylan Jones-edited Arena. During this time, he also wrote for The Daily Telegraph, US GQ, US Conde Nast Traveler, Esquire and The Sunday Times. He eventually became Deputy Travel Editor of the latter, and after seven years in this role left to help launch the UK edition of Conde Nast Traveller, moving on when Headline bought his first novel. He still contributes to The Sunday Times and is Writer at Large for GQ. To relax, he plays at playing trumpet/flugelhorn, an instrument he learned to help empathise with a character in Trans Am, who subsequently transmuted into a guitar player.

Robert Ryan lives in North London with his wife, three children, one flat coat retriever (black), and two cats (white, one deaf).