Philip Marsden

Philip Marsden, also known as Philip Marsden-Smedley (born 11 May 1961), is an English travel writer and novelist. Born in Bristol, England, Marsden has a degree in anthropology<ref>Allston Mitchell, "Interview with Philip Marsden", The Global Dispatches...", 10 October 2012.</ref> and worked for some years for The Spectator magazine. He became a full-time writer in the late 1980s. He was elected as a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature in 1996. A review of his work by Guy Mannes-Abbott appeared in The Independent newspaper in November 2007. He lives in Cornwall with his wife, the writer Charlotte Hobson, and their children.