Personal Background
Dyer currently resides in London. He was born and raised in Cheltenham as the only child of a sheet-metal worker father and a cafeteria lady mother. In his writings Dyer often describes himself as a 'scholarship boy.' He obtained a scholarship to study English at Oxford. He is married to Rebecca Wilson, a director at the Saatchi Gallery, London. Geoff Dyer did his schooling at Cheltenham and went on to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he obtained a Bachelor's in English literature. However, in his essay On the Roof he states that while living on the dole in Brixton in the early '80s, his 'quality of study was much higher' than at Oxford.
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