Event overview
The Art of Biography - Erica Wagner and Frances Wilson
Erica Wagner was born in New York City. She is the author of Gravity: Stories, Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Story of Birthday Letters and Seizure, a novel; she is the editor of First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner. Twice a judge of the Man Booker Prize, she was literary editor of The Times for 17 years and is now contributing literary editor for Harper’s Bazaar, a contributing writer for the New Statesman, as well as writing for the Financial Times, the Economist and the New York Times. She was the recipient of the Eccles British Library Writer’s Award in 2014, and she is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. She lives in London.
Frances Wilson’s biographies include The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth (winner of the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Award 2008), How to Survive the Titanic; Or, the Sinking of J Bruce Ismay (Winner of the Elizabeth Longford prize for Historical Biography 2012), and Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey, which is currently shortlisted for the History Writers Association Non-Fiction Crown, was longlisted for Bailey Gifford Prize (2016), and a finalist for NBBC Awards, the Biographer’s International Association Plutarch Prize, and Los Angeles Book Prize.
This event will be followed by Welcome Drinks.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2017 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
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