William Leith

William Leith is a British journalist and literary nonfiction writer whose work often combines interviews, observation, and personal reflection. In The Trick, he follows encounters with people who became exceptionally wealthy while asking how money changes attention, status, fear, and everyday choices. The supplied phrase The Trick Why Some People Can Make Money represents the same book but stops midway through its subtitle. Bloomsbury publishes it as The Trick: Why Some People Can Make Money and Other People Can't. Leith has written columns for the Independent on Sunday, the Mail on Sunday, and the Observer. His books also include The Hungry Years, Bits of Me Are Falling Apart, and The Cut that Wouldn't Heal. Across these titles, he uses encounters and lived experience to make social questions concrete, moving between reportage and self-examination without presenting his subjects as abstract case studies.