Andrew McConnell Stott was born in Bury St. Edmunds, England, in 1969. For several years he was a stand-up comedian and while he made the decision to give it up, many of those he performed with went on to become obscenely rich and famous. Oh well.
He is the author of Comedy (Routledge, 2005) and The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi (Canongate, 2009), which won the Royal Society of Literature/Jerwood Prize for Non-Fiction.
He lives in Buffalo, New York, and is pictured here winking at the Coldstream Guards.
