Committed to supporting, promoting & connecting biographers. Runs Slightly Foxed Best First Biography, Tony Lothian & Lifetime Services to Biography Prizes.
London, England
Joined March 2016
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Thrilled to announce that @lea_ypi has won the #SlightlyFoxed Best First Biography Prize for Free: Coming of Age at the End of History. A joy to toast the brilliant winner & glorious shortlist this evening @MaggsBros! @BiographersClub #FoxedPrize
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Out now! #FoxedPod Ep. 31: The Magic of Angela Carter | Imagination, influence & the invention of infernal desire machines. Angela Carter’s biographer, Edmund Gordon, guides us through her colourful works & the wider realms of magical realism
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The Biographers’ Club will be talking to historian & journalist Simon Heffer about Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries – the most entertaining & revelatory political diaries of the 20th century – on Tuesday 6 April
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Jonathan Lichtenstein, The Berlin Shadow | In this formally audacious and deeply moving memoir, Lichtenstein retraces his father Hans’s journey from Berlin as a child refugee | #FoxedPrize 2020 Shortlist
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Shelley Klein, The See-Through House | Klein’s memoir of her father Bernat, a celebrated textile designer, and of the glass house that he built, is funny, nuanced and disarmingly honest | #FoxedPrize 2020 Shortlist
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Heather Clark, Red Comet | In this meticulous, compassionate life, @Plathbiography offers illuminating readings of Sylvia Plath’s poems, & brings us closer than ever to the spirited woman & visionary artist | #FoxedPrize 2020 Shortlist foxedquarterly.com/shop/heat… @JonathanCape
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Hadley Freeman, House of Glass | @HadleyFreeman beautifully writes about the extraordinary lives of her grandmother Sala & her siblings, following their journey from their shtetl in Poland to Paris & Long Island | #FoxedPrize 2020 Shortlist foxedquarterly.com/shop/hadl… @4thEstateBooks
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The 2020 judges are @Rupechri, Selina Hastings and Alexander Masters and the prize will be awarded on Tuesday 9 March with an online celebration. Best of luck to all shortlisted biographers! #FoxedPrize
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We're delighted to see Red Comet by @Plathbiography and The See-Through House by Shelley Klein shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize!Congratulations to Heather Clark and Shelley Klein 🎉🥳
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Most days I feel I can barely write a sentence, so I'm completely overwhelmed that HOUSE OF GLASS has been shortlisted for @FoxedQuarterly's Best First Biography Prize. All credit to my grandmother and her brothers, because the book is their lives thebookseller.com/news/plath…
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So happy to see THE SEE-THROUGH HOUSE -- Shelley Klein's wonderful memoir and biography of her father, celebrated textile designer Bernat Klein -- on the Slightly Foxed shortlist!
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Biographers' Club retweeted
One of my favourite memoirs last year - so pleased @HadleyFreeman's House of Glass is on the Best First Biography shortlist @FoxedQuarterly @BiographersClub
Most days I feel I can barely write a sentence, so I'm completely overwhelmed that HOUSE OF GLASS has been shortlisted for @FoxedQuarterly's Best First Biography Prize. All credit to my grandmother and her brothers, because the book is their lives thebookseller.com/news/plath…
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Huge congrats to Shelley Klein whose debut memoir #TheSeeThroughHouse is shortlisted for the @FoxedQuarterly Best First Biography Prize 2020! Out now with @vintagebooks
The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2020 Shortlist is here! thebiographersclub.com/the-s… @FoxedQuarterly
Biographers' Club retweeted
.@Plathbiography, @HadleyFreeman, Sudhur Hazareesingh, Shelley Klein and Jonathan Lichtenstein are all in the running for this year's @FoxedQuarterly Prize for the Best First Biography... See more here: bit.ly/35PpZ6f
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Join me in conversation with Hisham Matar at Hatchards, Piccadilly on Thursday Feb 27th - 6.30. Tickets £10 from Eventbrite
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Biographers' Club calls for entries to Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize (free to view). @BiographersClub @FoxedQuarterly bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-a…
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We have our fingers crossed for #Educated @tarawestover but want to just take a minute to applaud all the excellence on display in the shortlist 👏👏 – at London, England