Location: England, UK
Harry Whitehead
Harry Whitehead is a novelist and Associate Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Leicester, where he is Co-Director of the Centre for New Writing.
He has been a Wingate Scholar and was 2016-7 Eccles Centre Fellow in North American Studies at the British Library, while researching White Road. He has a degree in Anthropology, an MSc in Medical Anthropology and a PhD in Creative Writing. He worked for many years in the film industry.
His literary debut The Cannibal Spirit (Penguin) was called ‘powerful, brave, ambitious’ (The Globe & Mail), ‘a unique work, compelling, complex, thought-provoking and impressive’ (Quill & Quire), ‘a thriller with a Joseph Conradian plot’ (The Walrus).
Harry Whitehead is a novelist and Associate Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Leicester, where he is Co-Director of the Centre for New Writing.
He has been a Wingate Scholar and was 2016-7 Eccles Centre Fellow in North American Studies at the British Library, while researching White Road. He has a degree in Anthropology, an MSc in Medical Anthropology and a PhD in Creative Writing. He worked for many years in the film industry.
His literary debut The Cannibal Spirit (Penguin) was called ‘powerful, brave, ambitious’ (The Globe & Mail), ‘a unique work, compelling, complex, thought-provoking and impressive’ (Quill & Quire), ‘a thriller with a Joseph Conradian plot’ (The Walrus).
His latest novel, White Road, is a gritty eco-thriller set in the High Arctic. It will be out Autumn 2025.
