Laura Beers
Laura Beers is Professor of British History at the American University in Washington, DC, and divides her time between DC and York in the UK. She studied at Princeton and Harvard before becoming a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge.
She is the author of Your Britain: Media and the Making of the Labour Party and Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, both published by Harvard University Press.
Her first trade book, about the contemporary resonances of George Orwell’s life and work, was published by Hurst in the UK and W. W. Norton in the US. Orwell’s Ghosts was a BBC History magazine Book of the Year, a New Yorker Best Book of the Year, and won both the Goldsmith Book Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography.
