Sam Leith (born 1 January 1974) is an English author, journalist and literary editor of The Spectator.
He now writes for several publications, including the Financial Times, Prospect, The Spectator, The Wall Street Journal Europe and The Guardian.
[5] Leith has published several works of non-fiction, including Dead Pets, Sod's Law, You Talkin' to Me?
and a book of poetry entitled Our Times in Rhymes: A Prosodical Chronicle of Our Damnable Age[6] The Coincidence Engine,[7] his first novel, was published in April 2011.
[8] Leith succeeded Mark Amory as literary editor of The Spectator in September 2014,[9] where he described himself as "this magazine’s token wishy-washy centre-left liberal".