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Edmund de Waal was born in Nottingham in 1964. Before studying English at Cambridge, he completed an apprenticeship with potter Geoffrey Whiting. On graduating , he set up a pottery on the Welsh border. He studied Japanese at Sheffield University and was awarded a Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Scholarship, working at the Mejiro Ceramics Studio in Tokyo. He holds a teaching post as Professor of Ceramics at the University of Westminister, and lives and works in London.

De Waal is a potter of international reputation, whose work has recently been on display at Tate Britain as part of Kettle's Yard's 50th Anniversary celebrations and at the V&A where his commission Signs and Wonders has been launched as part of the new Ceramic Galleries. De Waal's work is held in over 30 public collections worldwide including the British Council; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Western Australia, Perth; the World Ceramic Exposition Museum, Ichon, Korea and the Museum für angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt.

De Waal is also a writer, whose publications include Twentieth Century Ceramics (Thames & Hudson, 2003) and Bernard Leach (Tate Publishing, 1998). His lastest book The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance (Chatto and Windus, 2010) has just been published to huge critical acclaim.