Somerset Maugham Award
2 appearances
Laura Thompson
ローラ・トンプソン
Rōra Tonpuson
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Nationality
- British
- Languages
- English
Career
- Occupations
- writer, biographer
- Active Years
- 1994-2024
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tring Park School for the Performing Arts | — | dance | — | teenager | United Kingdom |
| Merton College, Oxford | — | English | — | — | United Kingdom |
Tring Park School for the Performing Arts
dance
Period:
teenager
Country:
United Kingdom
trained in dance
Merton College, Oxford
English
Country:
United Kingdom
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Somerset Maugham Award | The Dogs: A Personal History of Greyhound Racing | — | Society of Authors | winner |
Somerset Maugham Award
1995
Work:
The Dogs: A Personal History of Greyhound Racing
Organization:
Society of Authors
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The Dogs: A Personal History of Greyhound Racing
1994 Non-fictionLife in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford the Biography
2003 BiographyAgatha Christie: An English Mystery
2007 BiographyThe Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
2016 BiographyBibliography
- The Dogs: A personal history of greyhound racing
- Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford the Biography
- Agatha Christie: An English Mystery
- The Six: The lives of the Mitford sisters
- Rex v Edith: A Tale of Two Murders
- A Different Class of Murder: The Story of Lord Lucan
- The Last Landlady: An English Memoir
- Heiresses: The lives of the million dollar babies
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- detailed and engaging biographical style
Legacy
English writer and biographer. Won the Somerset Maugham Award for her first book. Acclaimed for biographies of Nancy Mitford and Agatha Christie, and true-crime books on Lord Lucan and Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters.
Trivia
- Studied English at Merton College, Oxford after training in dance at Tring Park School.