About Richard

Richard T. Kelly was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, grew up in Northern Ireland, and now lives in London.

 

He is the author of the novels Crusaders (2008), The Possessions of Doctor Forrest (2011) and The Knives (2016).

 

Eclipse, his first script for television, aired on Channel 4 in 2010.

 

From 1998 to 2001 he was a programmer and curator for the Edinburgh Film Festival.

 

He has written several studies of filmmakers: Alan Clarke (1998), The Name of this Book is Dogme 95 (2000), and the authorized biography Sean Penn: His Life & Times (2004). In 2007 he edited Ten Bad Dates with De Niro: A Book of Alternative Film Lists.

 

Keegan and Dalglish, his dual biography of the legendary footballers, was published in 2017 and longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize.

 

A Long Walk Home by Judith Tebbutt (2012), for which he was co-writer, was a Sunday Times bestseller and a National Book Awards nominee.