Ruth Scurr
Dr Ruth Scurr (born 1971, London)[citation needed] is a British writer, historian and literary critic. She is a Fellow of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.[1] 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.
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. [2] It has been translated into five languages.
Scurr began reviewing regularly for The Times and The Times Literary Supplement in 1997.[3] Since then she has also written for The Daily Telegraph,[4] The Observer, New Statesman,[5] The London Review of Books,[6] The New York Review of Books, The Nation,[7] The New York Observer, The Guardian [8] and The Wall Street Journal.[9]
She was a judge on the Man Booker Prize panel in 2007, and the Samuel Johnson Prize panel in 2014.[10][11][12] She is a member of the Folio Prize Academy.[13]
Scurr is Director of Studies in Human, Social and Political Sciences for Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where she has been a Fellow since 2006. Her research interests include: 17th and 18th century history of ideas; biographical, autobiographical and life writing; the British and French Enlightenments; the French Revolution; Revolutionary Memoir; early Feminist Political Thought; and contemporary fiction in English.
She was married to the political theorist John Dunn[citation needed] between 1997 and 2013. She has two daughters and a stepson.
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Dissertations, theses
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Critical studies and reviews
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- ↑ https://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/people/ruth-scurr
- ↑ http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3738.The_Times_Online_100_Best_Books_of_the_Decade_2000_2009_,
- ↑ http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/tlssearch.do?querystring=Ruth+Scurr§ionId=1797&p=tls
- ↑ http://journalisted.com/ruth-scurr?allarticles=yes
- ↑ http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/ruth_scurr
- ↑ http://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/ruth-scurr
- ↑ http://www.thenation.com/authors/ruth-scurr
- ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/profile/ruth-scurr
- ↑ http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304275304579397013452253126
- ↑ http://www.themanbookerprize.com/people/ruth-scurr
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- ↑ http://www.thesamueljohnsonprize.co.uk
- ↑ http://www.thefolioprize.com/the-academy/
External links
- http://www.ruthscurr.co.uk/
- http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n08/hilary-mantel/if-youd-seen-his-green-eyes
- http://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/may/20/featuresreviews.guardianreview4
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3652168/Sea-green-Robespierre-mad-as-a-fish.html
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3652170/Making-the-monster-human.html
- http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/fatal-purity-robespierre-and-the-french-revolution-by-ruth-scurr-477223.htm
