Mark Simpson was born in York, England, where he attended the same school as Guy Fawkes, though not in the same year.

After running away from Oriel College, Oxford and working as a deckhand, a bouncer, a photo-love novel model, a pot-washer and a double-glazing salesman, he realised he was unemployable and so naturally turned to writing.

Exposed by the New York Times as the deadbeat dad of the 'metrosexual', he has since been asked by hundreds of publications and TV stations around the world to explain himself, his own ‘lesbosexual’ sense of anti-style, and his offspring’s perfect complexion. He also appears to have been the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's manic cameo appearance in the movie Sleep With Me as a party guest obsessed with the homoerotics of the classic Eighties blockbuster Top Gun.

He is a regular contributor to radio and TV programmes.

Simpson is the author of several critically-acclaimed books, including Male Impersonators ("Brilliant" – Observer), It's a Queer World ("You'd have to be a chronic depressive not to laugh'"- New Statesman & Society) editor of Anti-Gay ("The year's most controversial book" – BBC Radio Five), co-author of The Queen is Dead ("Something of a masterpiece'"- Independent), Sex Terror: Erotic Misadventures in Pop Culture ("Magnificent…. Open Simpson's book anywhere you like as often as you like and you'll find gem-like sentences Zadie Smith would give her white teeth for" – Independent on Sunday) and his latest, Saint Morrissey ("Funny, clever, honest, irreverent and egotistical: Simpson is quite the match for Morrissey. More biographies should be written this way." – Independent on Sunday Books of the Year).