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A much-celebrated biographer, Lyndall Gordon lives in Oxford. Her ability to make the subjects of her biographies come vividly to life has won her many literary awards, including the Cheltenham Prize and the James Tait Black prize. She has also been long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize.

She is currently writing her ninth book, LIVES LIKE LOADED GUNS: The Dickinson Feud, on the life of American poet Emily Dickinson, uncovering stunning new material. Virago will publish and have recently re-issued her biography of Virginia Woolf, with the re-issue of her biography of Charlotte Bronte to follow.

Candia McWilliam calls her 'a rare phenomenon: a biographer whose preoccupations and authorial career reveal a flowering towards imaginative truth' and Brenda Maddox talks of her 'adventurous scholarship'.

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• Author website