Will Eaves

Will Eaves (born 1967) is a British writer, poet and professor at the University of Warwick.

Early life Eaves was born in Bath, Somerset. He was educated at Beechen Cliff School before going up to King's College, Cambridge to read English.

Career Will Eaves was the Arts Editor at The Times Literary Supplement from 1995 to 2011. His most recent novel Murmur – a book about the inner workings of Alan Turing – brought him much critical acclaim. For Murmur, Eaves was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and won the Wellcome Book Prize. It was only the third novel to win the award for science-related writing.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2021.