Ray Connolly was brought up in Lancashire and attended the London School of Economics, where he read social anthropology. He has written for the London Evening Standard, Daily Mail, The Sunday Times, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Observer.
He has written several novels, including Sunday Morning and Shadows on a Wall, the movies That'll Be the Day and Stardust, the television series Lytton's Diary and Perfect Scoundrels and biographies of Elvis Presley and John Lennon, as well as radio plays and short stories.