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Sam Leith (born 1 January 1974) is an English author, journalist and literary editor of The Spectator.
After an education at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford, Leith worked at the revived satirical magazine Punch, before moving to the Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph, Daily Telegraph columns where he served as literary editor until 2008. He now writes for several publications, including the Financial Times, Prospect, The Spectator, The Wall Street Journal Europe and The Guardian. The Guardian contributor page He had a regular column in the Monday edition of the London Evening Standard. Evening Standard columns and appeared as a panelist on BBC Two's The Review Show. The Review Show
Leith has published several works of non-fiction, including Dead Pets, Sod's Law, You Talkin' to Me? and a book of poetry entitled Our Times in Rhymes: A Prosodical Chronicle of Our Damnable Age The Coincidence Engine, his first novel, was published in April 2011. He was a judge on the panel of the 2015 Man Booker Prize, won by Marlon James with A Brief History of Seven Killings. In November 2016, Leith was named the winner of the Columnist of the Year award at The Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards. The Comment Awards 2017 #eiCA17 brought to you by Editorial Intelligence , Winners 2016
Leith succeeded Mark Amory as literary editor of The Spectator in September 2014, Literary Editor Mark Amory retires from The Spectator, but will he be replaced?, Melville House Publishing, 19 September 2014 where he described himself as "this magazine’s token wishy-washy centre-left liberal". Since January 2024, he has written a monthly Spectator column on PC game.
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