Will Storr

Will Storr is a multi-award-winning, internationally bestselling author, and an in-demand public speaker. He has spent over two decades exploring the origins and importance of stories and the power they have over us, personally and collectively.

Storr’s work is read and enjoyed by highly influential people on both sides of the Atlantic, where his books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies. Fans include writers and public intellectuals such as Ezra Klein, Philippa Perry, Susan Cain, Rory Sutherland, Nir Eyal and Hannah Fry, to academics Angela Duckworth, Seth Godin and Robert Cialdini to cultural commentators David Brooks, Helen Lewis and Daniel Finkelstein. He has a wide circle of fans in British comedy, not least Jimmy Carr, Fern Brady, Sara Pascoe, Russell Kane and Jason Manford. He has been interviewed by some of the world’s leading podcasters, including Joe Rogan, Sam Harris, Dr Rangan Chatterjee and Steven Bartlett.

His books include Selfie (“Approaching genius”, Sunday Times), The Status Game (“Excellent… perhaps his best,” The Times) and the international bestseller The Science of Storytelling (“Excellent”, New York Times). His novel The Hunger and the Howling of Killian Lone was described as “riveting” in a coveted starred review in Publisher’s Weekly.

Previously, Storr was an award-winning longform journalist who specialised in human rights reporting in Latin America, Africa and the remote Aboriginal communities of Australia. His work appeared in the Guardian, the Sunday Times, the Observer, the New York Times and the New Yorker. His groundbreaking reporting on sexual violence earned the Amnesty International Award, the One World Press Award. and the AIB Award for Best Investigative Documentary.

He has also worked as a ghostwriter for high profile public figures. First Man In, for Ant Middleton, spent months at the top of the Sunday Times bestseller chart and was shortlisted for non-fiction book of the year at the British Book Awards. Humanise, for Thomas Heatherwick, was described by Alain de Botton as “a masterwork”. His ghostwritten books have sold more than two million copies worldwide.

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