Lawrence Osborne is a British novelist, traveler and memoirist, currently residing in New York City. He is known for unusual travelogues that explore single subjects or places, such as Paris, global wine culture [1] or the little-known neighborhoods of Bangkok.
Osborne was educated at Cambridge and Harvard, and has since led a nomadic life, residing for years in France, Italy, Morocco, the United States, Mexico and Thailand.
He is the author of the novel Ania Malina,[2] a book about Paris, Paris Dreambook,[3] the essay collection The Poisoned Embrace,[4] a controversial book about autism called American Normal,[5] and three subsequent travel books published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux between 2004 and 2009: a book about wine, The Accidental Connoisseur,[6] The Naked Tourist,[7] and an account of expatriate life in Bangkok called Bangkok Days.[8]
He has been published widely as a journalist in the United States, most notably in the New York Times Magazine,[9] The New Yorker,[10] Gourmet, Salon and Men's Vogue, for whom he was a widely read "Cellar Critic". He is also an occasional op ed columnist at Forbes.com