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Edward St Aubyn (born 14 January 1960) is an English author and journalist noted for his semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels. He is the author of eight novels. In 2006, Mother's Milk was nominated for the Booker Prize.

Edward St Aubyn was born in London into an upper-class family, the son of Roger Geoffrey St Aubyn (1906–1985), a former soldier and a surgeon, and his second wife, Lorna Mackintosh (1929–2005). He is the great-great grandson of Sir Edward St Aubyn, 1st Baronet, whose eldest son was The 1st Baron St Levan. His father was first married to Sophie Helene Freifrau von Puthon of Schloss Mirabell in Salzburg, whom he divorced in 1957. His maternal grandparents were Capt. Alastair William Mackintosh of the Seaforth Highlanders, who later moved to Palm Beach, Florida, and New York heiress Lela Emery, daughter of Cincinnati businessman John Josiah Emery, Sr., and sister of John J. Emery, Jr. and Audrey Emery, wife of Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia. She later married the Duc de Talleyrand et Dino and resided in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France. Alistair Mackintosh, a native of Inverness, was briefly married to American silent film star Constance Talmadge from 1926–1927. He has an elder sister, Alexandra, and two half-sisters by his father's first marriage.