Frances Wilson

Frances Wilson is a critic, a journalist, and the author of several works of nonfiction, including Literary Seductions ; The Courtesan's Revenge ; T he Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth , which won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize; How to Survive the Titanic , winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography; and Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey , which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She is a Fellow of the Royal...See more

Frances Wilson is a critic, a journalist, and the author of several works of nonfiction, including Literary Seductions ; The Courtesan's Revenge ; T he Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth , which won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize; How to Survive the Titanic , winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography; and Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey , which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and she received a fellowship from the New York Public Library's Cullman Center in 2018. She lives in London with her daughter. See less