Keiron Pim
Non-fiction writer, Biographer
About
Keiron Pim is the author of two widely acclaimed biographies, Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth (Granta, 2022) and Jumpin’ Jack Flash: David Litvinoff and the Rock’n’Roll Underworld (Jonathan Cape, 2016). He is now working on a creative nonfiction study of the East End of London in the 1970s, which will be published by Granta.
Endless Flight was a book of the year in the Times and received worldwide positive coverage in publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement and Sydney Morning Herald. Jumpin’ Jack Flash was also a book of the year in the Times and was named the best debut biography of the year in the Guardian.
In 25 years as a journalist and author, Keiron has written for titles including the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Spectator and London Review of Books. He began his career as a reporter on the Eastern Daily Press newspaper in Norfolk, moving from hard news to feature-writing, where his assignments spanned everything from celebrity interviews to investigative journalism and a period reporting from Iraq as an embedded reporter with British troops
Prior to becoming an RLF Fellow, he taught for Arvon, the National Centre for Writing and the University of East Anglia. Keiron lives in north Norfolk with his wife and three teenage daughters. In his spare time he enjoys football (watching Norwich City FC and playing for a local veterans’ team), playing guitar and drawing.