Andrew Crumey

Andrew Crumey (born 1961) is a novelist and former literary editor of the Edinburgh newspaper Scotland on Sunday.

Andrew Crumey in 2021

Life and career

Crumey was born in Kirkintilloch, north of Glasgow, Scotland. He graduated with First Class Honours from the University of St Andrews and holds a PhD in theoretical physics from Imperial College, London.

In 2000 Crumey's fourth novel Mr Mee was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2006, Crumey became the fifth recipient of the Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award. He now lectures part-time on creative writing at Northumbria University.

He has an interest in astronomy and has published on the subject of astronomic visibility and Ricco's law.^[1]

Works

• Music in a Foreign Language (1994)
• Pfitz (1995)
• D’Alembert’s Principle (1996)
• Mr Mee (2000)
• Mobius Dick (2004)
• Sputnik Caledonia (2008)
• The Secret Knowledge (2013)
• The Great Chain of Unbeing (2018)
• Beethoven's Assassins (2023)

See also

•  Novels portal

• List of comic and cartoon characters named after people
• List of fiction employing parallel universes

References

• . The Northern Rock Foundation. 30 March 2006. Archived from the original on 22 November 2006. Retrieved 24 March 2007.

1. Crumey, A. (2014). Human contrast threshold and astronomical visibility. MNRAS 442, 2600–2619.

External links

• Andrew Crumey's webpage (author site)
• Andrew Crumey's webpage (Northumbria University)
• Goodreads.com
• Andrew Crumey at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database