:Sam Leith#Published books

{{Short description|English author, journalist and editor (born 1974)}}

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| parents = Penny Junor
James Leith

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Danny Kruger (cousin)

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Sam Leith (born 1 January 1974) is an English author, journalist and literary editor of The Spectator.

After an education at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, Leith worked at the revived satirical magazine Punch, before moving to the Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph,[https://web.archive.org/web/20090204204025/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/samleith/ Daily Telegraph columns] where he served as literary editor until 2008. He now writes for several publications, including the Financial Times, Prospect, The Spectator, The Wall Street Journal Europe and The Guardian.[https://www.theguardian.com/profile/sam-leith/ The Guardian contributor page] He had a regular column in the Monday edition of the London Evening Standard.[http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-home/columnistarchive/Sam%20Leith-columnist-942-archive.do/ Evening Standard columns] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903072609/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-home/columnistarchive/Sam%20Leith-columnist-942-archive.do |date=3 September 2011 }} and appeared as a panelist on BBC Two's The Review Show.[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0162jgj/ The Review Show]

Leith has published several works of non-fiction, including Dead Pets, Sod's Law, You Talkin' to Me? and a book of poetry entitled Our Times in Rhymes: A Prosodical Chronicle of Our Damnable Age{{cite news|first=Charlotte |last=Higgins|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/oct/13/you-talkin-sam-leith-review?newsfeed=true |title=You Talkin' to Me? by Sam Leith - review|newspaper=The Guardian|date=13 October 2011}} The Coincidence Engine,{{cite news|first=Killian |last=Fox|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/apr/03/sam-leith-coincidence-engine-review |title=The Coincidence Engine by Sam Leith – review |newspaper=The Observer|date= 3 April 2011}} his first novel, was published in April 2011. He was a judge on the panel of the 2015 Man Booker Prize, won by Marlon James with A Brief History of Seven Killings. In November 2016, Leith was named the winner of the Columnist of the Year award at The Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards.[http://www.commentawards.com/winners.php The Comment Awards 2017 #eiCA17 brought to you by Editorial Intelligence] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160129014215/http://www.commentawards.com/winners.php |date=29 January 2016 }}, Winners 2016

Leith succeeded Mark Amory as literary editor of The Spectator in September 2014,[http://www.mhpbooks.com/literary-editor-mark-amory-retires-from-the-spectator-but-will-he-be-replaced Literary Editor Mark Amory retires from The Spectator, but will he be replaced?], Melville House Publishing, 19 September 2014 where he described himself as "this magazine’s token wishy-washy centre-left liberal".{{Cite web |last=Leith |first=Sam |date=2024-07-15 |title=It wasn’t just Trump who dodged a bullet. It was all of us |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/it-wasnt-just-trump-who-dodged-a-bullet-it-was-all-of-us/ |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=The Spectator |language=en-US}} Since January 2024, he has written a monthly Spectator column on computer gaming.{{cite news |last1=Leith |first1=Sam |title=Computer games aren't a total waste of time |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/video-games-arent-a-total-waste-of-time/ |access-date=5 February 2024 |work=The Spectator |date=6 January 2024}}

==Published books==

• Dead Pets: Eat Them, Stuff Them, Love Them (Canongate, 2005)
• Daddy, Is Timmy in Heaven Now? (Canongate, 2006)
• Sod's Law: Why Life Always Falls Butter Side Down (Atlantic, 2009)
• The Coincidence Engine (Bloomsbury, 2011)
• You Talkin' to Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama (Profile Books, 2011)
• Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama (Basic Books, 2012) – US edition
• Write to the Point: How To Be Clear, Correct and Persuasive on the Page (Profile Books, 2017)
• Write to the Point: A Master Class on the Fundamentals of Writing for Any Purpose (The Experiment, 2018) – US edition
• Our Times in Rhymes: A Prosodical Chronicle of Our Damnable Age, illus. Edith Pritchett (Square Peg, 2019), {{OCLC|1129688625}}
• The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading (Oneworld, 2024)