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British author and solicitor (born 1982) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ivo James Benedict Stourton (born 1982) is a British author and solicitor.[1]
Stourton first came into the public eye at the age of 17 when he wrote and starred in Kassandra, an award-winning Edinburgh Festival production about the Vietnam War.
In June 2006 he was signed to a two-book deal by Random House. His first book, The Night Climbers a novel about a secret society in Cambridge and a group of friends who get involved in art fraud, was published on 4 June 2007, and is partly based on the infamous student practice of "night climbing". The Night Climbers was published in the United States by Simon Spotlight Entertainment on 7 September 2007.
His second novel, The Book Lover's Tale, was published in June 2011.[2] His third, The Happier Dead, was published in 2014.
The eldest child of Edward Stourton and his first wife, Margaret (née McEwen), Ivo attended Eton College and was a member of the Eton Society alongside Prince William and actor Eddie Redmayne. He graduated with a double first in English from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.[citation needed] His younger brother Tom also attended Eton and is a comedian.[3]
Stourton entered the BPP Law School and is an associate at Slaughter and May.[4]
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