Frances Wilson (writer)


Frances Wilson 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 PhD 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. She reviews for The Times Literary Supplement, The Spectator, The Oldie, The New Statesmen, The Guardian, and The Daily Telegraph, and has been a judge for the Whitbread Biography Prize, the Man Booker Prize, the Baillie Gifford Prize, and is currently the 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 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 2009. Since 2016, she has taught Creative Writing and English Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a co-founder of the how to: Academy.
Wilson was the Jean Strouse Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library from 2018-19, where she worked on a biography of D.H. Lawrence to be published by FSG in America and Bloomsbury in the UK in 2021.

Works

Wilson is author of five books:
She has written introductions to