Simon Brett

Simon Anthony Lee Brett OBE (born 28 October 1945 in Worcester Park, Surrey, England) is a radio producer and writer of detective fiction.

Personal life

The son of a chartered surveyor, he was educated at Dulwich College and Wadham College, Oxford, where he got a first-class honours degree in English. He then joined the BBC as a trainee and worked for BBC Radio and London Weekend Television before devoting most of his time to writing from the late 1970s. He is married with three children and lives in Arundel, West Sussex, England.

Brett has been the president of the Detection Club since 2000. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to literature.

Radio and television career

While with the BBC, Brett produced the first episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, as well as many episodes of cult comedy series The Burkiss Way, comedy series I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and comedy panel game Just a Minute. In the mid-1990s, Brett wrote and hosted Foul Play, a radio panel game in which well-known writers of detective fiction were challenged to solve a dramatised mystery. Moving into television, Brett was responsible for producing End of Part One and the television revival of The Glums for LWT.