Daisy Hay is an award-winning biographer whose previous work includes Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives (2010), Mr and Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance (2015) and Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age (2022).  Her next work of narrative non-fiction, The Book of Falling Women, is due for publication with Chatto & Windus in 2026. She began her writing career as a doctoral student and then a Bye-Fellow at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, before moving to Oxford where she held the Alistair Horne Fellowship at St Antony’s College and a Visiting Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing at Wolfson College.  She has also held a Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard.  In 2016 she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize by the Leverhulme Trust; she was elected Fellow of the RSL in 2018.  She is currently Professor of English Literature and Life Writing at the University of Exeter and lives in Devon with her family.