Ian Edward Sansom (born 3 December 1966 in Essex, England) is the author of the Mobile Library Mystery Series. As of 2016[update], he had written four books in a series that will comprise a projected forty-four novels.[1][2][3]
He is a frequent contributor to, and critic for, The Guardian[4] and the London Review of Books.[citation needed]
He studied at both Oxford and Cambridge, where he was a fellow of Emmanuel College. He is a professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick and teaches in its writing programme.[5]