Stephen Grosz was born in Indiana in 1952 and was educated at the University of California, Berkeley and Balliol College, Oxford. For the past twenty-five years he has worked as a psychoanalyst. He teaches at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and in the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College London (UCL). His first book, The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves, was published by Vintage in 2013 and spent its first three months upon publication in the top 10 of The Sunday Times non-fiction bestseller list. It has been translated into over twenty-five languages and was longlisted for the 2013 Guardian First Book Award. Grosz has published stories in the Financial Times Weekend Magazine and Granta. He lives in London.

Website: www.stephengrosz.com

Books in order of publication:

Listening to Scrooge: Stories from an Examined Life (2012).

The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves (2013).