Martyn Bedford is a British author. He is an alumnus of the University of East Anglia. The first twelve years of Martyn Bedford's writing career were spent as a journalist on regional newspapers. His initial book Acts of Revision won the Yorkshire Post ?Best First Work? Award. He later became the director of the novel writing programme at the University of Manchester, and is fiction critic for the Literary Review. Currently, Bedford teaches the Creative Writing module at Leeds Trinity University. In 2008?10, he was Academic Writer-in-Residence, Royal Literary Fund Fellow. Bedford lives in Ilkley, West Yorkshire with his wife and two daughters. 

January 1st, 1959 in Croydon (Age 65)