Jonathan Basil Keates, (born 2 May 1946 in Paris, France) is an English writer, biographer and novelist. He was educated at Bryanston School and went on to read for his undergraduate degree at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Keates has written a number of acclaimed biographies and travel books, but his works of fiction have also received critical acclaim, most notably Allegro Postillions, for which he was awarded both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Hawthornden Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Keates is also an English teacher employed by the City of London School teaching naughty boys such as Sebastien Rennie, Adam (Weirdo) Moursy and Or Dodi.