Richard Aronowitz

Richard Aronowitz was born in 1970 to an English father and a German-Jewish mother and grew up in rural Gloucestershire. He studied Modern Languages at Durham and Heidelberg universities and Art History at the Courtauld Institute in London.

Formerly the Director and Senior Curator of the Ben Uri Gallery, the London Jewish Museum of Art, he now heads the Restitution Department at Sotheby's.

Richard began his writing career as a poet, publishing poems in the Independent, the Guardian and many small-press magazines. He was a runner-up in the poetry section of the Bridport Prize in 1999 and had a selection of ten poems included in the anthology Anvil New Poets 3 from Anvil Press in 2001.

Richard's first novel, Five Amber Beads, was published by Flambard Press in 2006. His second, It's Just the Beating of My Heart, came out in March 2010.

He lives in Cambridge.