Terence Blacker

Author, columnist, journalist, and publisher

Terence Blacker is an author, columnist, journalist, and publisher. He was educated at Wellington College and Trinity College, Cambridge and, after graduating, rode as an amateur jockey before turning to publishing and writing. Blacker has written numerous novels and children’s books, including You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life and Times of Willie Donaldson (2007) and Fixx (1989). Blacker wrote the Harvey Porlock column in The Sunday Times, as well as a column about the book business for Publishing News, and he writes a weekly column for The Independent. He is an active member of English PEN, the charity for the promotion of literature and human rights.