About Brian Finney

Brian Finney is a prize-winning writer and professor emeritus in English literature. Born in London, he obtained a BA in English and Philosophy at Reading University and a PhD on D. H. Lawrence’s shorter fiction at the University of London, where he taught literature and arranged extra-mural courses in the arts from 1964 to 1987. After immigrating to Southern California, he taught at UC Riverside, UCLA, the University of Southern California, and California State University Long Beach until he retired in 2015.

He has published seven non-fiction books and two novels. His second book, Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography, was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for non-fiction that year. He went on to publish, among others, The Inner I, a pioneering study of British literary autobiography, and a widely cited book about British fiction in the eighties and nineties, English Fiction Since 1984.

In 2019 he published his first novel, Money Matters, which was a Finalist in the 2019 Best American Fiction Awards. His second novel, Dangerous Conjectures was published in 2021. It won a Book Excellence Award.

Brian Finney is married and lives in Venice, California.