Rebecca Stott
““Stott is masterly as both a storyteller and a historian.””
© Nicholas BradleyRebecca Stott is an award-winning writer, historian, Emeritus professor of literature and creative writing at UEA and a radio broadcaster. She has published fifteen books. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2021.
Her novels include Ghostwalk (a New York Times bestseller), The Coral Thief (BBC Book at Bedtime) and most recently Dark Earth, a historical thriller set in the sixth century in the ruined city of Londinium which was shortlisted for the Historical Writers Association Golden Crown Award. Her memoir In the Days of Rain, an account of growing up in - and escaping - a fundamentalist Christian cult, was awarded the Costa Biography Prize in 2017. Her other non-fiction books include two books on Darwin: Darwin and the Barnacle (Faber) and Darwin's Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists (Bloomsbury) as well as a cultural history of the oyster, Oyster.
She writes and performs radio essays regularly for BBC Radio Four - all links to these programmes are on her website. Rebecca co-taught the acclaimed creative writing course at UEA for fourteen years - until 2021 - and although she has now given up teaching to spend more time writing, she takes on occasional mentoring.
She is working on a new book of non-fiction for Fig Tree, Penguin Random and has plans for a new novel.
She lives in Lewes, Sussex.
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