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Fenton, Edward James Sanderson (1959 - present), writer and publisher
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Dates of existence
4 August 1959 - present
History
Edward Fenton was an undergraduate at Magdalene College (admitted 1977).
He has worked as a writer, publisher and editor. He started out as a music journalist for NME, before getting his first job in publishing. His novel Scorched Earth won the Sinclair Prize for Fiction.
He has written and/or researched over twenty radio documentaries, broadcast on BBC Radios 1, 3 and 4, including a documentary on Samuel Pepys’s love of music. He has a particular interest in diaries, and in 1998 he set up an independent publishing company, Day Books.