About Simon Vance:
Simon Vance is the critically acclaimed narrator of more than 600 audiobooks, winner of 45 AudioFile Earphones Awards, and a 10-time Audie® Award recipient, including the 2012 Audie Award for Best Solo Narration–Male.

Simon was named a “Golden Voice” by AudioFile magazine, and Booklist magazine named him its very first “Voice of Choice.”

Recently Simon recorded A Hundred Flowers by Gail Tsukiyama, Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (a 2013 Audie winner, of which Hilary Mantel herself said: “No author could hope for a more faithful and imaginative audio version”), and Rod, the autobiography of Rod Stewart.

Some of his best-selling and most critically acclaimed performances include The King’s Speech by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi, Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, Patrick O’Brian’s Master and Commander series (all 21 titles), the new productions of Frank Herbert’s original Dune series, Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Rob Gifford’s China Road (an AudioFile 2007 Book of the Year).
In addition to his extensive narration work, Simon also worked for many years as a BBC Radio presenter and newsreader in London. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two sons.