John Burnside author biography, plus links to books by John Burnside.

John Burnside

John Burnside has published five works of fiction and eleven collections of poetry, all published in the UK, and has won the Whitbread Poetry Award, and been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. His memoir, A Lie About My Father, was published in the United States in May 2007; The Devil's Footprints is his first novel to be published in the USA.

This biography was last updated on 01/22/2008.

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