Jenny Uglow | |
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| Born | 1947 (age 76–77) |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Subject | Arts |
| Notable awards | James Tait Black Memorial Prize Hessell-Tiltman Prize Marfield Prize |
| Spouse | Steve Uglow, m. 1971 |
| Children | 4 |
Jennifer Sheila Uglow OBE FRSL (née Crowther,[1][2] born 1947) is an English biographer, historian, critic and publisher. She was an editorial director of Chatto & Windus. She has written critically acclaimed biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hogarth, Thomas Bewick, and Edward Lear, and a history and joint biography of the Lunar Society, among others, and has also compiled The Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography.
She won the 2002 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 2003 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for The Lunar Men: The Friends who Made the Future 1730–1810, and her works have twice been shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. She is a past president of the Alliance of Literary Societies and has also chaired the Council of the Royal Society of Literature.