D.J. Taylor's fiction includes English Settlement (1996), which won a Grinzane Cavour Prize, Trespass (1998) and Derby Day (2011), both of which were long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and Stewkey Blues: Stories, which won the 2023 East Anglian Book Awards Fiction Prize. He has also written many works of non-fiction, among them Orwell: The Life, which won the 2003 Whitbread Prize for Biography and Orwell: The New Life (2023). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Norwich with his wife, the novelist Rachel Hore.