Miranda Seymour is a celebrated novelist and biographer. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Former Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and teaches for the Royal Literary Fund at Kings College London. Miranda also writes reviews and articles for a number of leading newspapers and literary journals, including the Financial Times, London Review of Books, New York Review of Books, and Literary Review

She is the author of many acclaimed biographies including A Ring of Conspirators, an innovative study of Henry James and his literary circle; In Byron’s Wake, a double biography of Byron’s wife, Annabella Milbanke, and their daughter, Ada Lovelace; and the newly reissued classic Ottoline Morrell: Life on a Grand Scale. She has also written, Noble Endeavours, a history of Germany and England told through stories of personal friendships between the nations. Additionally, her memoir of her father, In My Father’s House, was winner of the 2008 PEN/Ackerley Prize.

She is also the author of several novels including the critically acclaimed, The Telling, and The Reluctant Devil. 

Her most recent biography, I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys was selected as an LA Times Best Book of the Year 2022 and a Times literary non-fiction Book of the Year.