Nicholas Lezard

Miseducated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge (not his fault), Nicholas Lezard is these days an English journalist and literary critic. From time to time a slack dad, Guardianist book-reading sort, and radio critic, he now writes the weekly ‘Down and Out’ for the New Statesman.

Described as the bastard offspring of Wodehouse and Beckett, his books include Bitter Experience has Taught Me and It Gets Worse: Adventures of Love, Loss and Penury. Despite having penned an entire other volume ‘against sporting hysteria’, he is quite keen that people know he holds the Rain Men CC’s record stand for the 10th wicket partnership (79)—a fact he has somehow got into Wisden 2023.