Ruth Scurr

Dr Ruth Scurr (born 1971, London) 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 between 1997 and 2013. She has two daughters and a stepson.

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References

  1. ↑ https://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/people/ruth-scurr
  2. ↑ http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3738.The_Times_Online_100_Best_Books_of_the_Decade_2000_2009_,
  3. ↑ http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/tlssearch.do?querystring=Ruth+Scurr&sectionId=1797&p=tls
  4. ↑ http://journalisted.com/ruth-scurr?allarticles=yes
  5. ↑ http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/ruth_scurr
  6. ↑ http://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/ruth-scurr
  7. ↑ http://www.thenation.com/authors/ruth-scurr
  8. ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/profile/ruth-scurr
  9. ↑ http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304275304579397013452253126
  10. ↑ http://www.themanbookerprize.com/people/ruth-scurr
  11. ↑ Ruth Scurr (15 June 2007). "Ruth Scurr". The Times. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
  12. ↑ http://www.thesamueljohnsonprize.co.uk
  13. ↑ http://www.thefolioprize.com/the-academy/

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