Tom Leveritt lives in Suffolk. He was raised in Texas, sent to boarding school in the UK, took a double first at Cambridge, and received an Army Scholarship into the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards and a Queen Mother Bar Scholarship to Middle Temple. He has received the Carroll Medal for Portraiture from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Somerset Maugham Award for Literature, and the Betty Trask Award for a first novel.