Elizabeth Day is an award-winning author and broadcaster and founder of Daylight Productions.
She is the author of 10 books, spanning both fiction and non-fiction and is a Sunday Times Number 1 bestseller. Her latest novel is One Of Us.
Her chart-topping podcast, How to Fail With Elizabeth Day, is a celebration of all of the things that haven’t gone right. Every week, in a one-on-one interview, a guest discusses what they have learned from failure. Previous guests of How to Fail include Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Kate Winslet, Jon Bon Jovi, Michelle Yeoh, Kazuo Ishiguro, Malcolm Gladwell, Stanley Tucci, Jamie Dornan, Gloria Steinem, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Andrew Scott and Simon Cowell.
In 2019 it won the Rising Star Award at the British Podcast Awards. In 2020, Elizabeth was given a prestigious Harper’s Bazaar ‘Women of the Year’ award for ‘bringing solace to the nation with her sensitivity and wit.’
How To Fail Live tours have played to multiple sell-out venues internationally, including The London Palladium and the Sydney Opera House.
Elizabeth has written two books inspired by the podcast: How To Fail: Everything I’ve Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong, is part-memoir, part-manifesto. It is also a Sunday Times top 5 bestseller.
Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong was described by Alain de Botton as ‘beautiful, timely and humane.’
To date, Elizabeth has written six novels and four works of non-fiction which collectively have gained her a Betty Trask Award, Observer Book of the Year and a Richard and Judy Summer Book Club pick.