Francis Spufford FRSL (born 1964)[1] is an English author and teacher of writing whose career has shifted gradually from non-fiction to fiction.
[1] He was a Royal Literary Fund fellow at Anglia Ruskin University from 2005 to 2007,[5] and since 2008 has taught at Goldsmiths College in London on the MA in Creative and Life Writing there.
In March 2019, it was reported that Spufford had written an unauthorised novel set in the universe of C. S. Lewis’s Narnia series, The Stone Table.
In the absence of permission, the earliest publication date would be 2034, seventy years after Lewis’s death, when the copyright on the original books will expire in the UK.
[16] A former atheist,[8] he is now a practising Christian and is married to an Anglican priest, the Reverend Dr Jessica Martin, who is the Dean of Chelmsford Cathedral.