Biography
Linda Grant was born in Liverpool, England in 1951, and read English at the University of York. Her first novel, The Cast Iron Shore (1996), won the David Higham Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize. Her second, When I Lived in Modern Times (2000), set in Palestine immediately after the Second World War, won the Orange Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize for Fiction. Her novel, Still Here (2002), set in Liverpool, tells the story of a middle-aged English woman and her relationship with an American architect.
Her non-fiction includes Sexing the Millennium: A Political History of the Sexual Revolution (1993) and Remind Me Who I Am Again (1998), an account of her mother's dementia, which won the MIND Book of the Year/Allen Lane Award.
Linda Grant lives in north London. The People on the Street: A Writer's View of Israel (2006), was winner of the 2006 Lettre Ulysses Award; and The Clothes on Their Backs (2008), was shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Her latest book is The Thoughful Dresser (2009)
Bibliography
Sexing the Millennium: A Political History of the Sexual Revolution HarperCollins, 1993
The Cast Iron Shore Picador, 1996
Remind Me Who I Am Again Granta, 1998
When I Lived in Modern Times Granta, 2000
Still Here Little, Brown, 2002
The People on the Street: A Writer's View of Israel Virago, 2006
The Clothes on their Backs Virago, 2008
The Thoughtful Dresser Virago, 2009
