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Bill Buford has been a writer and editor for the New Yorker since 1995. Before that he was the editor of Granta magazine for sixteen years and, in 1989, became the publisher of Granta Books. He is also the author of Heat and Among the Thugs. He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, grew up in California, and was educated at UC Berkeley and Kings College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a Marshall Scholarship for his work on Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets. He lives in New York City with his wife, Jessica Green, and their two sons.

Books by Bill Buford

Dirt

From the author of the widely acclaimed Heat – a hilarious and highly obsessive account of the author's adventures in the world of French haute cuisine

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Heat

'Heat is by far the funniest, most passionately felt and intensely flavoured piece of writing about food, its possibilities and its culture, you are likely to read' - Tim Adams, Observer

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Among The Thugs

Before Running with the Firm came Among the Thugs - the bestselling classic account of football violence in English football.

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