George Pendle

George Pendle (born 1976) is a British author and journalist.

He was educated at Stowe School and St Peter's College, Oxford.

After working at The Times as a writer and commissioning editor from 1997 to 2001,

Pendle's second book – The Remarkable Millard Fillmore: The Unbelievable Life of a Forgotten President (2007) is a faux-biography of the unlucky thirteenth President of the United States of America, Millard Fillmore.

His third book, Death: A Life (2008), is a comedic autobiography of the personification of Death and how he deals with his purpose, life, and love.

A collection of his non-fiction writing was released under the title Happy Failure in 2014.

From 2001 forward, Pendle has written articles for the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, Frieze, Cabinet Magazine, History Today, Bidoun, The Economist, Esquire, Slate, and The Guardian, among others. He is also Editor At Large for Air Mail and lives in New York City, where he has written signs for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.