DBC Pierre has worked as a designer and cartoonist. He was born in Australia, raised in Mexico and has lived in Ireland and England.

His first novel, Vernon God Little, won the 2003 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award, the 2003 Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel, and the 2003 Booker Prize, and is sold in 43 countries. His relationship with Hammer stretches back to earliest childhood. He describes never having been so chilled and intrigued as with the supernatural Hammer films he grew up with. He spent many schooldays drawing replica storyboards on cash register rolls, and holding showings for classmates on a shoebox cinema.

D.B.C. Pierre