Geoff Dyer

Author and journalist

Geoff Dyer was born in Cheltenham in 1958, where he negotiated an education from the local grammar school before going on to study at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He wrote his first book, Ways of Telling: The Work of John Berger while jobless in London. His first novel, The Colour of Memory, soon followed, telling the story of a group of friends in Brixton, where Geoff has spent much of his life. He moved to Brighton in the late 1990s, immediately seeing the city's potential as source material for his work. His 1998 novel, Paris Trance reads as if it were set in Brighton of the period. The novel considers the possibilities of life and romance after a final fling with ecstasy and the party scene and was described by Tim Pears as a, 'Tender Is The Night for the ecstasy age'.

Comedian and Brighton resident, Dave Gorman, cites Geoff Dyer as one of his favourite authors. Geoff now lives in London.

Bibliography

Ways of Telling: The Work of John Berger - Pluto, 1986
The Colour of Memory - Cape, 1989
But Beautiful Cape - 1991
The Search - Hamish Hamilton, 1993
The Missing of the Somme - Hamish Hamilton, 1994
Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of DH Lawrence - Little Brown, 1997
Paris Trance - Abacus, 1998
Anglo-English Attitudes: Essay, Reviews, Misadventures - 1984-99 Abacus, 1999
What Was True: The Photographs and Notebooks of William Gedney (editor with Margaret Sartor) - WW Norton, 2000
The Selected Essays of John Berger (editor) - Bloomsbury, 2001
Granta 79: Celebrity (contributor: 'An Infamous Night Out in Amsterdam') Granta, 2002
Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It - LittleBrown, 2003
The Ongoing Moment - Little Brown, 2005