Charlotte Mendelson
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Charlotte Jane Mendelson (born 1 November 1972) is an English novelist and editor. She was placed 60th on the Independent on Sunday Pink List 2007.[1]
Biography
Charlotte Mendelson was born on 1 November 1972 in London, the daughter of a barrister, Maurice Harvey Mendelson.[2] Mendelson's family moved to Oxford when she was two, where her father taught at St John's College, Oxford.[3] She attended Oxford High School and New College, Oxford where she received a BA in Ancient and Modern History. She was an editor at Jonathan Cape in 1996–1997 and at the Headline Review in 1998–2014.[2]
Mendelson has been a visiting professor of creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London since 2017 and a gardening correspondent at the New Yorker since the same year. She became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018.[2]
Bibliography
- Love in Idleness (2001)
- Daughters of Jerusalem (2003)
- When We Were Bad (2007)
- Almost English (2013)
- Rhapsody In Green (2016)
- The Exhibitionist (2022)
- Wife (2024)
Awards and nominations
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
- Somerset Maugham Award
- Sunday Times 'Young Writer of the Year (shortlisted)
- London Arts New London Writers’ Award
- K. Blundell Trust Award
- Le Prince Maurice Roman d’Amour Prize (shortlisted)
- Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (shortlisted)
- Man Booker Prize 2013 (longlisted)
- Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014 (longlisted)
- Women's Prize for Fiction 2022 (longlisted for The Exhibitionist)[4]
Personal life
Mendelson lives in London. She has one son and one daughter.[3]
References
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