Emily Hauser

Emily Hauser is an award-winning classicist and the author of an acclaimed trilogy of novels retelling the stories of the women of Greek myth, For the Most Beautiful , For the Winner , and For the Immortal (2016-18, Penguin Random House). She read Classics at Cambridge, where she received a double first with distinction and won the Chancellor's Medal for Classical Proficiency. She has a PhD in Classics from Yale, and was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. She is now a Lecturer...See more

Emily Hauser is an award-winning classicist and the author of an acclaimed trilogy of novels retelling the stories of the women of Greek myth, For the Most Beautiful , For the Winner , and For the Immortal (2016-18, Penguin Random House). She read Classics at Cambridge, where she received a double first with distinction and won the Chancellor's Medal for Classical Proficiency. She has a PhD in Classics from Yale, and was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. She is now a Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter, and teaches and researches on women's writing ancient and modern. Her academic book, How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature , is coming out with Princeton University Press in 2023. See less