Ben Dylan Aaronovitch (born 22 February 1964) is an English author and screenwriter. He is the author of the series of novels Rivers of London. He also wrote two Doctor Who serials in the late 1980s and spin-off novels from Doctor Who and Blake's 7. Born in Camden, Aaronovitch is the son of the economist Sam Aaronovitch who was a senior member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and the younger brother of actor Owen Aaronovitch and journalist David Aaronovitch. He attended Holloway School. Aaronovitch left school with no particular plan. "Instead of going to university I basically faffed about. I had a series of terrible jobs, the kind you get when you have no qualifications." These included working as a security guard for Securitas, which he says taught him "to understand shoplifting a lot better. ... So it did come in quite handy later, for work". During one of the short-term jobs he submitted some scripts to the BBC, which led to him writing Doctor Who stories, and finally, while working at Waterstones, publishing his first Rivers of London novel. The book rapidly became a word-of-mouth success, enabling him to write full-time. He is passionate about diversity in literature, and in 2020 he founded the Future Worlds Prize, then known as the Gollancz and Rivers of London BAME SFF Award, aimed at opening up science fiction and fantasy publishing to more diverse writers. More information...
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