Mark Bostridge

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mark Bostridge is a British biographer and critic, born in 1965. He is the brother of the tenor Ian Bostridge. He was educated at the University of Oxford, where he was awarded the Gladstone Prize.

His first book was Vera Brittain: A Life, co-written with Paul Berry and published in 1995. This biography of the writer Vera Brittain was shortlisted for the two major non-fiction prizes of its day, the Whitbread and NCR prizes, as well as the Fawcett prize. Bostridge's next Brittain project was a collaboration with Alan Bishop. Their edition of her letters was published in 1998 as Letters from a Lost Generation, and Bostridge adapted the letters for a BBC Radio Four series starring Amanda Root as Vera Brittain and Rupert Graves as Roland Leighton.

Bostridge's Lives For Sale, an anthology of biographers' tales, was published in 2004. He is currently working on a biography of Florence Nightingale .

online reference [1] autobiographical article