Jan Grue was born in 1981 in Oslo. He has a congenital muscular dystrophy. A writer of fiction, non-fiction and children's literature, he is also Professor of Qualitative Research at the University of Oslo. His debut short story collection, Everything Under Control, was published in 2010, and he has since published five further short story collections, a novel, a number of children's books and several academic books. I Live A Life Like Yours was published in Norway in 2018 and hailed as a major milestone in Norwegian non-fiction. It is the first Norwegian non-fiction book to be nominated to the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 50 years.