Biography
Max Porter (born 1981) is an English writer. He was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and studied history of art at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
Before becoming a full-time writer he worked as a bookseller and as editorial director at Granta and Portobello Books. His debut, the novella Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (2015), was followed by Lanny (2019) and the novella Shy (2023). He wrote the screenplay for the 2025 film Steve, an adaptation of Shy directed by Tim Mielants and starring Cillian Murphy. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020.
