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Frances Wilson (writer)
English author, academic, and critic
For the American author, see Frances Wilson Huard.
Frances Wilson (born 1964) is an English author, academic, and critic.
Frances Wilson (born ) is an English author, academic, and critic.
Biography
Born in Malawi, she attended The Mount School, York, and read English literature at St Hugh's College, Oxford. She received a DPhil on Henry James and Freud from Sussex University. She taught English literature at Reading University for ten years, leaving in 2005 to become a full-time writer.[1] She reviews for The Times Literary Supplement,[2]The Spectator, The Oldie, New Statesman, The Guardian, and The Daily Telegraph,[3] and has been a judge for the Whitbread Biography Prize, the Man Booker Prize, the Baillie Gifford Prize, and was chair of the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize.
She has been writer in residence at Somerset House and University College London, taught a University of East Anglia/Guardian Masterclass in Biography and has been a Fell