Novelist and TV showrunner Jonathan Lee is the author of four novels, including High Dive and The Great Mistake.

He is creator, executive producer & lead writer of forthcoming BBC/ Netflix drama series “The Bombing of Pan Am 103”. Other TV projects include originating and executive producing the documentary series “Who Killed Jill Dando?” (Netflix, 2023), a Top 10 show on the streamer in 47 countries.

Jonathan’s novels have been chosen as books of the year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent on Sunday, and many other publications. 

Formerly the Editorial Director of the publisher Bloomsbury, Jonathan has also served as Literature Advisor to the British Council in London, focussing on building programs to support books in translation.

Other current TV writing projects include a limited series he is co-creating for FX with Sterlin Harjo about a Las Vegas heist, work with Oscar-winning screenwriter Eric Roth on a screen adaptation of High Dive, a show he is creating for CBS titled Van Helsing, and an anthology series based on a favourite Hitchcock movie.

You can listen to a BBC interview with Jonathan here, or read an interview in The Paris Review here.