Lyndall Gordon

Lyndall Gordon is the prize-winning author of six biographies, including Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds; The Imperfect Life of TS Eliot; Shared Lives, a memoir of women's friendship in her native South Africa; and Divided Lives: Dreams of a Mother and a Daughter, which tells her own story. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and lives in Oxford where she is a fellow of St Hilda's College.