Linda Grant
Linda Grant was born in Liverpool in 1951. She was educated at Belvedere School GPDST, read English at the University of York, did an MA at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada and further graduate studies at Simon Fraser University, B.C.
Her first novel, The Cast Iron Shore, published in 1996, won the David Higham Award and was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize. Her second novel, When I Lived in Modern Times, set in Tel Aviv in the last years of the British mandate, published in March 2000, won the Orange Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Encore Prize and the Jewish Quarterly Prize. Her third novel, Still Here, is set in present day Liverpool and will be published in May 2002 by Little, Brown.
She is a patron of the National Academy of Writing, a member of the management committee of the Society of Authors and a member of the Advisory panel of the MA in Creative Writing at Middlesex University.
