Susan Sellers | |
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| Nationality | British |
| Citizenship | British |
| Alma mater | University of London University of Paris |
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| Awards | Arts and Humanities Research Council Award Leverhulme Research Fellowship Canongate Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Literature in English; Creative Writing |
| Institutions | University of St Andrews |
Susan Sellers is a British author, translator, editor and novelist. She was the first woman to be made a professor in the field of English literature as well as creative writing at the University of St Andrews,[1] and is co-General Editor of the Cambridge University Press edition of the writings of Virginia Woolf.[2]
Sellers' first novel, Vanessa and Virginia, is a fictionalised account of the life of Vanessa Bell and of her complex relationship with her sister Virginia Woolf.[3] Sellers' second novel, Given the Choice,[4] is set in the contemporary art and music worlds. Her most recent novel Firebird is about the Russian dancer Lydia Lopokova, her love affair and marriage to British economist John Maynard Keynes, and her relationship with the Bloomsbury Group.