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Ann Thwaite
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Ann Thwaite is a British writer who is the author of five major biographies. AA Milne: His Life was the Whitbread Biography of the Year, 1990. Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape was described by John Carey as "magnificent - one of the finest literary biographies of our time". Glimpses of the Wonderful about the life of Edmund Gosse's father, Philip Henry Gosse, was picked out by D. J. Taylor in The Independent as one of the "Ten Best Biographies" ever. Her biography of Frances Hodgson Burnett was originally published as Waiting for the Party (1974) and reissued in 2020 with the title Beyond the Secret Garden, with a foreword by Jacqueline Wilson. Emily Tennyson, The Poet's Wife (1996) was reissued by Faber Finds for the Tennyson bicentenary in 2009.
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Ann Thwaite is a distinguished British biographer born in the historic area of Hampstead.
Her prolific career includes the authorship of over fifty published works.
She is renowned for her extensive research in the fields of biography and children's literature.
Her book Waiting for the party stands out as one of her most iconic and highly regarded works.
Her writing masterfully explores the lives of English authors and 19th-century narrative.