Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Lucy Angela Hughes-Hallett (born 7 December 1951)[1] is a British cultural historian and biographer.[2]

Born in London, Hughes-Hallett is the daughter of Michael Wyndham Norton Hughes-Hallett by his marriage to Penelope Ann Fairbairn.[3] Her father was a Lieutenant in the Scots Guards.[4] In 1984, she married Dan Franklin and they have two daughters.[3]

Hughes-Hallett has written book reviews regularly for The Sunday Times. In November 2013, she won the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction for her biography of the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio, The Pike.[5] The book also won the 2013 Costa Book Award (Biography).[6][7]

She is one of the judges of the Duff Cooper Prize and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[8]

Selected publications

References

  1. "Lucy Hughes-Hallett". Debrett's. Retrieved November 5, 2013.
  2. Sheri Berman (August 30, 2013). "'Gabriele d'Annunzio' by Lucy Hughes-Hallett". The New York Times. Retrieved November 5, 2013.
  3. 1 2 ‘HUGHES-HALLETT, Lucy’, in Who's Who 2014 (A. & C. Black, Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014)
  4. The London Gazette (Supplement) dated 17 May 1949, p. 2406
  5. Mark Brown (November 4, 2013). "Biography of Italian fascist wins Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction". The Guardian. Retrieved November 5, 2013.
  6. "Former winners recapture Costa prize". BBC News. 6 January 2014. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  7. Mark Brown (26 November 2013). "Costa book awards 2013: late author on all-female fiction shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved November 27, 2013.
  8. "Current RSL Fellows". Royal Society of Literature. Retrieved November 5, 2013.
  9. Bianchi, R. S. (1991). "(Review of) Cleopatra. Histories, Dreams and Distortions". Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt. 28: 239–240. doi:10.2307/40000593.
  10. Oliver, Taplin (December 3, 2004). "History & Biography - Heroes - Saviours, traitors and supermen - Lucy Hughes-Hallett". Times Literary Supplement. p. 27.


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