William Cook Biography

William Cook is an author and journalist based in London. He wrote Morecambe & Wise Untold (HarperCollins), The Comedy Store - The Club That Changed British Comedy (Little, Brown) and One Leg Too Few - The Adventures of Peter Cook & Dudley Moore (Random House). He has also edited several biographical anthologies, including Eric Morecambe Unseen (Harper Collins), Kiss Me, Chudleigh - The World According to Auberon Waugh (Hachette) and the bestselling Tragically, I Was An Only Twin - The Complete Peter Cook (Random House).

 

He has written extensively for The Guardian, The Independent, the Mail on Sunday, the New Statesman and Conde Nast Traveller. He is currently the theatre critic of The Oldie and a regular contributor to The Telegraph, The Spectator and The Critic. He has won several awards for his travel writing, including the Johann Strauss Gold Medal for his reporting from Vienna.