Maggie Gee has written 15 books to great acclaim including The White Family and Virginia Woolf in Manhattan, and her work has been translated into 14 languages. In 2012 there was an international conference about her work at St Andrew’s University. One of Granta’s original ‘Best of Young British Novelists’, she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been shortlisted for global prizes including the Orange (now Women’s) Prize, and the Dublin International IMPAC Prize. She writes novels, short stories, memoir, poetry and journalism, is a Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, a Director of the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society
and a Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature. Maggie Gee was awarded an OBE for services to literature in 2012. She lives in London WC1, and Ramsgate, Kent.
