Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Lucy Angela Hughes-Hallett (born 7 December 1951)[1] is a British cultural historian, biographer[2] 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.[3] The book also won the 2013 Costa Book Award (Biography)[4][5] 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.[6] In 1984, she married Dan Franklin and they have two daughters.[6]

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.[7]

In 2017, Hughes-Hallett published her first novel, Peculiar Ground.[8]

Selected publications
  • Hughes-Hallett, L. (1990). Cleopatra: Histories, dreams and distortions. New York: Harper & Row.[9]
  • Hughes-Hallett, L. (2004). Heroes: Saviours, traitors and supermen. London: Fourth Estate.[10]
  • Hughes-Hallett, L. (2013). The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War, London : Fourth Estate
  • Hughes-Hallett, L. (2017) Peculiar Ground, London: Fourth Estate
  • Hughes-Hallett, L (2019) Fabulous Fourth Estate

References
  1. "Lucy Hughes-Hallett". Debrett's. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  2. Sheri Berman (30 August 2013). "'Gabriele d'Annunzio' by Lucy Hughes-Hallett". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  3. Mark Brown (4 November 2013). "Biography of Italian fascist wins Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  4. "Former winners recapture Costa prize". BBC News. 6 January 2014. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  5. Mark Brown (26 November 2013). "Costa book awards 2013: late author on all-female fiction shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
  6. ‘HUGHES-HALLETT, Lucy’, in Who's Who 2014 (A. & C. Black, Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014)
  7. "Current RSL Fellows". Royal Society of Literature. Archived from the original on 2 October 2012. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  8. Rustin, Susanna (13 May 2017). "Lucy Hughes-Hallett: 'Here I am, late in life. I wanted to write a novel all that time'". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  9. Bianchi, R. S. (1991). "(Review of) Cleopatra. Histories, Dreams and Distortions". Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt. 28: 239–240. doi:10.2307/40000593.
  10. Oliver, Taplin (3 December 2004). "History & Biography - Heroes - Saviours, traitors and supermen - Lucy Hughes-Hallett". Times Literary Supplement. p. 27.
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