Chris Cleave

Dr Chris Cleave is a psychologist, existential psychotherapist, and #1 New York Times bestselling author. His novels — including Incendiary, Little Bee, The Other Hand, Gold, and Everyone Brave Is Forgiven — have been translated into more than thirty languages and have won and been shortlisted for numerous international awards.

Alongside his clinical practice, he writes about trauma, meaning, and how human beings survive and recover in difficult times. His work bridges literature and psychology, bringing narrative intelligence into clinical spaces and clinical depth into public storytelling.

He lives in London.