Lasdun was born in
London, the son of Susan (Bendit) and British architect Sir
Denys Lasdun. Lasdun has written four novels, including , a
New York Times Notable Book, and , which was an
Economist Book of the Year and was longlisted for the
Man Booker Prize for fiction. He has published four collections of short stories, including , the title story of which was adapted for film by
Bernardo Bertolucci as in 1998. His latest collection was chosen as a Best Book of the Year by , the , the and the . Lasdun has written four books of poetry, one of which,
Landscape with Chainsaw, was a finalist for the
T. S. Eliot Prize, the
Forward Prize and the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It was also selected as a TLS International Book of the Year. In 2013 he published a memoir:
Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked. His alleged stalker wrote a memoir in response called
Writing and Madness in a Time of Terror. With
Jonathan Nossiter, Lasdun co-wrote the film
Sunday in 1997, based on his story , winning both the Best Feature Award and the Waldo Salt Best Screenplay Award at Sundance. Together they also wrote the next Nossiter film
Signs and Wonders in 2000, starring Charlotte Rampling and Stellan Skarsgard, selected for the official selection of the
50th Berlin International Film Festival in 2000. His reviews and essays have appeared in , , the , and
The New Yorker. With his wife, Pia Davis, Lasdun has written two guidebooks dedicated to the combined pleasures of walking and eating: one in Tuscany and Umbria, the other in Provence. He has taught creative writing at Princeton, New York University, the New York State Writers' Institute, the New School, Columbia University and Bennington College. Critical appraisals of his work include reviews by
James Wood in
The Guardian,
Gabriele Annan in
The New York Review of Books and Johanna Thomas-Corr in
The Observer. Lasdun's 2017 article "My Dentist's Murder Trial: Adultery, False Identities, and a Lethal Sedation" was published in
The New Yorker and loosely inspired the
dark comedy television miniseries DTF St. Louis, which aired on
HBO in 2026. ==Bibliography==