D. J. Taylor is a British writer, known as critic, novelist and biographer. He received the 2003 Whitbread Biography Award for his life of George Orwell.

He lives in Norwich.

Works

• Great Eastern Land from the notebooks of David Castell (1986)
• A Vain Conceit: British Fiction in the 1980s (1989)
• Other People: Portraits From The 90's (1990) with Marcus Berkmann
• Real Life (1992) novel
• After the War: The Novel and England since 1945 (1993)
• English Settlement (1996) novel
• After Bathing at Baxter’s (1997)
• Trespass (1998) novel
• Thackeray (1999) biography
• The Comedy Man (2002) novel
• Pretext 6: Punk of Me (2002) guest editor
• Orwell (2003) biography