Byron Rogers is a journalist, essayist and biographer. He was raised in Carmarthen, West Wales, but now lives in Northamptonshire. He has written for the Sunday Telegraph, Saga Magazine and The Guardian and was once speech writer for the Prince of Wales. Consistently the funniest and most unusual journalist writing today, he is a historian of the quirky and forgotten, of people and places other journalists don't even know exist or ignore if they do. In 2007 he was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his biography The Man Who Went Into the West: The Life of RS Thomas.