Though an avid fan of digital reading, the author still prefers to write all his novels on an Olivetti Lettera 22, a manual typewriter that had once belonged to his late mother.
He has dual U.K. and U.S. Citizenship.
Two sons called Alexis and Luther.
Has 2 children with Deborah Orr, Ivan and Luther.
His mother is from Queens, New York City.
His father is university professor and author Peter Self.
A Consultant Psychiatrist from Essex, Dr. Lars Davidsson, once dismissed one of Will Self's Articles as "Antipsychiatric Rubbish" - the Entirity of the Good Doctor's Comment - over Facebook.