Lawrence Osborne

Lawrence Osborne is a critically-acclaimed novelist, journalist, and screenwriter based in Bangkok. He is the author of eight novels, including Ballad of a Small Player, Beautiful Animals, and The Forgiven, which was adapted into a film starring Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain. He is one of only three contemporary novelists commissioned to write a new Philip Marlowe novel, Only to Sleep, which was a finalist for the Edgar Award. In the past decade, four of his novels have been NY Times Notable Book selections and chosen as Best Books of the Year by The Economist, The Guardian, The New Yorker, NPR, the NY Times, and the Washington Post.