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Lasdun was born in [[London]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/england-and-wales-births-1837-2006?firstname=james&lastname=lasdun&eventyear=1958&eventyear_offset=2|title=Search Results for England & Wales Births 1837-2006|access-date=24 August 2017|archive-date=24 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824180530/http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/england-and-wales-births-1837-2006?firstname=james&lastname=lasdun&eventyear=1958&eventyear_offset=2|url-status=live}}</ref> the son of Susan (Bendit) and British architect Sir [[Denys Lasdun]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jan/12/guardianobituaries | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Diana | last=Rowntree | date=12 January 2001 | title=Sir Denys Lasdun | access-date=17 February 2014 | archive-date=29 July 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190729170514/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jan/12/guardianobituaries | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/feb/07/give-me-everything-you-have-review] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824181049/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/feb/07/give-me-everything-you-have-review |date=24 August 2017 }} Book review by Jenny Turner in ''[[The Guardian]]''</ref> Lasdun has written four novels, including {{Citation | title = The Horned Man | year = 2002}}, a [[New York Times Notable Book]], and {{Citation | title = Seven Lies | year = 2006}}, which was an [[Economist]] Book of the Year and was longlisted for the [[Man Booker Prize]] for fiction. He has published four collections of short stories, including {{Citation | title = The Siege: Selected Stories}}, the title story of which was adapted for film by [[Bernardo Bertolucci]] as {{Citation | title = Besieged| title-link = Besieged (film)}} in 1998. His latest collection {{Citation | title = It's Beginning To Hurt | year = 2009}} was chosen as a Best Book of the Year by {{Citation | title = The Los Angeles Times}}, the {{Citation | title = Wall Street Journal}}, the {{Citation | title = Library Journal}} and the {{Citation | title = Atlantic}}. Lasdun has written four books of poetry, one of which, ''Landscape with Chainsaw'',<ref>{{Citation|last=Birnbaum|title=Identity Theory|url=http://www.identitytheory.com/interviews/birnbaum168.php|type=interview|date=14 February 2006|access-date=8 May 2006|archive-date=19 April 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060419232633/http://www.identitytheory.com/interviews/birnbaum168.php|url-status=live}}.</ref> was a finalist for the [[T S Eliot Prize]], the [[Forward Prize]] and the [[Los Angeles Times Book Prize]]. It was also selected as a TLS International Book of the Year.
In 2013 he published a memoir: ''Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked''. His alleged stalker wrote a memoir in response called
With [[Jonathan Nossiter]], Lasdun co-wrote the film ''[[Sunday (1997 film)|Sunday]]'' in 1997, based on his story {{Citation | title = Ate Menos or The Miracle}}, winning both the Best Feature Award and the Waldo Salt Best Screenplay Award at Sundance. Together they also wrote the next Nossiter film ''[[Signs and Wonders (film)|Signs and Wonders]]'' in 2000, starring Charlotte Rampling and Stellan Skarsgard, selected for the official selection of the [[50th Berlin International Film Festival]]<ref name="Berlinale 2000">{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2000/02_programm_2000/02_Programm_2000.html |title=Berlinale: 2000 Programm |access-date=2015-07-08 |work=berlinale.de |archive-date=11 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111192719/http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2000/02_programm_2000/02_Programm_2000.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
His reviews and essays have appeared in {{Citation | title = Harper's}}, {{Citation | title = Granta}}, the {{Citation | title = London Review of Books}}, {{Citation | title = The Guardian}} and ''The New Yorker''.
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