David Profumo

David Profumo studied English at Magdalen College, Oxford, and King's College, London, and was a teacher before becoming a freelance writer. His work has appeared in many newspapers and magazines here and abroad, from the Wall Street Journal to The Newsletter of the Kiribati and Tuvalu Philatelic Society. The author of two novels, he was awarded the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1989, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1995. He has been Fishing Correspondent for...See more

David Profumo studied English at Magdalen College, Oxford, and King's College, London, and was a teacher before becoming a freelance writer. His work has appeared in many newspapers and magazines here and abroad, from the Wall Street Journal to The Newsletter of the Kiribati and Tuvalu Philatelic Society. The author of two novels, he was awarded the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1989, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1995. He has been Fishing Correspondent for The Daily Telegraph and Country Life, and lives in Perthshire. See less