After a quirky childhood, which sealed his fate as a writer, Tom Cutler worked designing sets at the National Youth Theatre, before doing fine art at a university. He then grew a handlebar moustache and bummed around London with a paintbrush. There, he trained in radio and TV production, and worked briefly for BBC Radio, where he learned to write properly. There followed a series of editorial and production jobs in publishing, but he renounced office life to write a funny book and has since lived by his pen. His titles have sold hundreds of thousands of copies: 211 Things a Bright Boy Can Do was an Amazon number-1 blockbuster on initial publication in 2006. His memoir, Keep Clear: My Adventures with Asperger’s, was very well reviewed in the national press. Prize-winning author Steve Silberman said of it in The Spectator: "What makes this book extraordinary … is not the autism of its author but Cutler’s ability to articulate subtle shades of feeling in prose that feels both rigorously precise and uproariously funny. By its unexpectedly heart-wrenching conclusion, Keep Clear has delivered the readers into a world transformed by being glimpsed through the eyes of another – the reward of all superb writing."

His books have been translated into several languages. Tom is a pretty rusty fingerstyle guitarist and a pretty good sleight-of-hand magician. He lives with his wife at the seaside, where he enjoys kicking pebbles.