Frances Wilson (writer)

Born in Malawi, she attended The Mount School, York, and read English literature at St Hugh's College, Oxford. She received a DPhil 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.[1] She reviews for The Times Literary Supplement,[2] The Spectator, The Oldie, New Statesman, The Guardian, and The Daily Telegraph,[3] and has been a judge for the Whitbread Biography Prize, the Man Booker Prize, the Baillie Gifford Prize, and was 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. From 2016 until 2021 she taught creative writing and English literature at Goldsmiths, University of London.[4] She is a co-founder of the how to Academy.[5]

Wilson was the Jean Strouse Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers[6] at the New York Public Library from 2018 to 2019, where she worked on a biography of D.H. Lawrence, which was published by FSG in America and by Bloomsbury Circus in the UK in 2021.