Bill Buford is a Staff Writer and European Correspondent for The New Yorker. He was the Fiction Editor of the magazine for eight years, from April 1995 20 December 2002.
Bill Buford came to The New Yorker from Granta, which he edited for sixteen years. Granta was a Cambridge University magazine with a few hundred readers when he became editor in 1979. He turned it into a critically acclaimed quarterly, with an international circulation of 100,000, devoted to contemporary literature and journalism.
In 1989 Bill Buford became the publisher of Granta Books. He has edited three anthologies: The Best of Granta Travel, The Best of Granta Reportage, and The Granta Book of the Family.
Bill Buford is the author of Among the Thugs? (Norton, 1992), a highly personal non-fiction account of crowd violence and British soccer hooliganism. For The New Yorker, he has written about sweatshops, the singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams, and chef Mario Batali.
Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1954, Bill Buford grew up in California and was educated at the University of California at Berkeley and at Kings College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a Marshall Scholarship for his work on Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. Bill Buford lives in New York City with his wife, Jessica Green.
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