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'''Dr Ruth Scurr''' (born 1971, London) is a British writer, historian and literary critic.

== Biography ==

She is a Fellow of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.

She was educated at St Bernard's Convent, Slough; Oxford University, Cambridge University and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

She won a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2000.

== Fatal Purity ==

Her first book, [[Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution]] (Chatto & Windus, 2006; Metropolitan Books, 2006) won the Franco-British Society Literary Prize (2006), was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize (2006), long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize (2007) and was listed among the 100 Best Books of the Decade in The Times in 2009.

It has been translated into five languages.

== See also ==

* [[Historian]]
* [[Writer]]

== External links ==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Scurr Ruth Scurr] @ Wikipedia

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 == Fatal Purity ==
-Her first book, [[Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution]] (Chatto & Windus, 2006; Metropolitan Books, 2006) won the Franco-British Society Literary Prize (2006), was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize (2006), long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize (2007) and was listed among the 100 Best Books of the Decade in The Times in 2009.
+Her first book, ''[[Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution]]'' (Chatto & Windus, 2006; Metropolitan Books, 2006) won the Franco-British Society Literary Prize (2006), was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize (2006), long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize (2007) and was listed among the 100 Best Books of the Decade in The Times in 2009.
 It has been translated into five languages.