Personal Info

Jennifer Uglow studied English at St Anne’s and was awarded her BA in 1969. She has worked in publishing since leaving University, and is Editorial Director of Chatto & Windus. She is also a prolific writer and editor, and her highly praised books include George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories, Hogarth: A Life and a World, The Lunar Men: The Friends who Made the Future, and Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick. She reviews for press and radio, and has been historical consultant for BBC classic serials including Wives and Daughters, Daniel Deronda, Bleak House, and Lost in Austen.

She won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for The Lunar Men, and her works have twice been shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. She is an Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Warwick, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She was awarded the OBE in 2007.