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Latest revision as of 13:06, 24 April 2016
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
External links
- Ruth Scurr @ Wikipedia
