Background
Watson was born in Stourbridge, in the West Midlands.
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Steve S. J. Watson
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He studied Physics at the University of Birmingham and then moved to London, where he worked in various hospitals and specialized as an audiologist in the diagnosis and treatment of hearing-impaired children.
Career
He debuted in 2011 with the thriller novel Before I Go to Sleep. Rights to publish the book have been sold in 42 different countries around the world and it has gone on to be an international bestseller. In the evenings and weekends he wrote fiction.
In 2009 Watson was accepted for the first course Writing a Novel at the Faber Academy.
The result was his debut, Before I Go to Sleep. He was introduced to literary agent Clare Conville on the last night of the course and she agreed to represent him.
The book was published in 2011. In the same year it was announced that the book would be adapted for the big screen by Ridley Scott, with Rowan Joffe slated to write and direct.
In July 2014 it was announced that Watson"s second novel Second Life is due to be published in February 2015, with two further books scheduled for 2017 and 2019.
In Before I Go to Sleep was considerable and Watson himself was the subject of a profile in the Sunday Times before its United Kingdom publication and The Wall Street Journal before its United States publication. Watson has been profiled by Bookseller+Publisher and has also appeared on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4"s Front Row being interviewed by Kirsty Language. He has also been interviewed by Simon Mayo when Before I Go to Sleep was chosen as his bookclub book of the month.
