Giles Foden (born 1967) is an English author, best known for his novel The Last King of Scotland (1998).Giles Foden was born in Warwickshire in 1967. His family moved to Malawi in 1972, where he was raised. He was educated at Yarlet Hall and Malvern College boarding schools, then at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he read English, and at St John's College, Cambridge. He worked as a journalist for Media Week magazine, then became an assistant editor on the Times Literary Supplement. He was deputy literary editor of The Guardian between 1995 and 2006 and is currently Fellow in Creative and Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, and still contributes regularly to The Guardian and other journals. Wikipedia
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