Alistair OwenAlistair Owen is the author of Smoking in Bed: Conversations with Bruce Robinson (one of David Hare's Books of the Year in the Guardian), Story and Character: Interviews with British Screenwriters, Hampton on Hampton (one of Crai Raine's Books of the Year in the Observer) and The Art of Screen Adaptation: Top Writers Reveal Their Craft.


He has written original and adapted screenplays and stageplays, on spec and to commission; contributed filmmaker interviews to Creative Screenwriting and film book reviews to the Independent on Sunday; and recently published his first novel, The Vetting Officer.


Alistair has chaired Q&A events at the Hay Festival, Edinburgh International Book Festival and London Screenwriters' Festival; and his platform with Christopher Hampton in the Lyttelton Theatre to celebrate Faber's 75th anniversary was published in the anthology Faber Playwrights at the National Theatre.


His next nonfiction project is a book of conversations with bestselling author and screenwriter William Boyd, for Penguin. Read More Read Less