Ann Thwaite
Actor
Ann Thwaite (born 4 October 1932) is a British writer who is the author of five major biographies. AA Milne: His Life was the Whitbread Biography of the Year, 1990. Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape (Duff Cooper Prize,1985) was described by John Carey as magnificent - one of the finest literary biographies of our time. Glimpses of the Wonderful about the life of Edmunds father, Philip Henry Gosse, was picked out by DJ Taylor in the Independent as one of the Ten Best Biographies ever. Frances Hodgson Burnett was originally published (1974) as Waiting for the Party and reissued in 2007 with the sub-title Beyond the Secret Garden. Emily Tennyson, The Poets Wife (1996) was reissued by Faber Finds for the Tennyson bicentenary in 2009.
Bio from Wikipedia - See more on en.wikipedia.org Text under CC-BY-SA license