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Fiona Sampson

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Fiona Sampson’s twenty-nine books include critically acclaimed literary biographies and writing about place. Limestone Country, reissued in paperback this autumn, was a Guardian Book of the Year. Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2021) was finalist for the Plutarch Prize and PEN US international biography award, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and Washington Post Book of the Year. Published in thirty-eight languages, Fiona has received numerous national and international honours including an MBE and FRSL. She’s at work on new biographies of George Sand (for Transworld/Penguin) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (for Princeton University Press).