Ali Smith was born in Inverness, Scotland, in 1962 and lives in Cambridge, England. She is the author of Autumn, How to Be Both, There but For The, Artful, Free Love, Like, Hotel World, Other Stories and Other Stories, The Whole Story and Other Stories, The Accidental, Girl Meets Boy and The First Person and Other Stories. Autumn was short-listed for the 2017 Man Booker Prize.