Helen Simpson is an English novelist and short story writer. Her notable works include Four Bare Legs in a Bed, Dear George, Hey Yeah Right Get a Life, Constitutional and In-Flight Entertainment, among others. She has received the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Hawthornden Prize and the E. M. Forster Award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London.