Lucy Hughes-Hallett


Lucy Angela Hughes-Hallett is a British cultural historian, biographer and novelist. In November 2013, she won the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction for her biography of the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio, The Pike. The book also won the 2013 Costa Book Award and the Duff Cooper Prize.

Biography

Lucy Hughes-Hallett has written three works of non-fiction - Cleopatra, Heroes and The Pike: Gabriele d'Annunzio - a novel and a collection of short stories.
Born in London, Hughes-Hallett is the daughter of Michael Wyndham Norton Hughes-Hallett by his marriage to Penelope Ann Fairbairn. In 1984, she married Dan Franklin and they have two daughters.
Hughes-Hallett was a Vogue Talent Contest prize-winner in 1973 and subsequently worked for five years as a feature writer on the magazine. In 1978 she won the Catherine Pakenham Award for a profile of Roald Dahl. Since then she has written on books and arts for all of the British broadsheet newspapers including The Sunday Times and The Guardian. She was television critic of the London Evening Standard for five years. She has judged the WH Smith Award, The Duff Cooper Prize, The Encore Award and the RSL Jerwood Award. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
In 2017, Hughes-Hallett published her first novel, Peculiar Ground.

Selected publications