Nicholas Cornwell, better known by his pen name Nick Harkaway, is a British novelist and commentator. Born on 26 November 1972, Harkaway has become renowned for his contributions to literature, with his novels The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker (which was nominated for the 2013 Arthur C. Clarke award), Tigerman, and Gnomon; in addition to a non-fiction study of the digital world, The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World. Cornwell has also written two novels under the pseudonym Aidan Truhen.

Outside of his literary contributions, Harkaway has a unique personal life characterized by his "explosively exciting eyebrows," which he humorously claims exert an almost hypnotic attraction over small children, dogs, and, importantly, one "ludicrously attractive human rights lawyer," to whom he is married. He expresses a fondness for natural wonders such as oceans, mountains, lakes, and valleys, along with a peculiar liking for marzipan pigs, a Swiss New Year's tradition. However, he maintains a distrust of bivalves, citing an inability to trust them.