Autor/-in: Glendinning Victoria

Victoria Glendinning is a biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist. Her biographies include A Suppressed Cry: Life and Death of a Quaker Daughter,. Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer,. Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions. (winner of the Duff Cooper Prize and the James Tait Black Prize), Rebecca West,. Anthony Trollope. (winner of the Whitbread Prize for Biography), Jonathan Swift. , Leonard Woolf. and a biography of Sir Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore. Her novels include The Grown-Ups. , Electricity. , Flight. and The Butcher's Daughter. She is an Honorary Vice-President of English PEN and Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded a CBE in 1998.