Born in Vienna in 1936 David PryceJones is the son of the wellknown writer and editor of the Times Literary Supplement Alan PryceJones and Therese Poppy FouldSpringer. He grew up in a cosmopolitan mix of industrialists bankers soldiers and playboys on both sides of a family embodying the fault lines of the title not quite Jewish and not quite Christian not quite Austrian and not quite French or English not quite heterosexual and not quite homosexual socially conventional but not quite secure.Graduating from Magdalen College Oxford David PryceJones served as Literary Editor of the Financial Times and the Spectator a war correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and Senior Editor of National Review. Fault Lines is a memoir that spans Europe America and the Middle East and encompasses figures ranging from Somerset Maugham to Svetlana Stalin to Elie de Rothschild. As seen on Channel 4s My Grandparents War with Helena Bonham Carter the memoir has the storytelling power of PryceJoness numerous novels and nonfiction books and is perceptive and poignant testimony to the fortunes and misfortunes of the present age.