Charles Foster’s books include Being a Beast (2016), which is a New York Times Bestseller, was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford and Wainwright Prizes and won the IgNobel Prize for Biology and the Deux Millions d’Amis Literary Prize, The Screaming Sky (2021), which was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize, Being a Human (2021), A Little Brown Sea (2022) which was long-listed for the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award, Cry of the Wild (2023) and many more.
He contributes to many publications, including the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian, the Times, and the Literary Review.
He is a Fellow of Exeter College, University of Oxford, and lives in Oxford and a remote part of the southern Peloponnese.