Elected: 2025
Sarah LeFanu is author of biographies of Rose Macaulay and Samora Machel and of the life-writing memoirs Dreaming of Rose: A Biographer’s Journal and Talking to the Dead: Travels of a Biographer. Her first book, In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction, won the MLA Emily Toth Award; her group biography, Something of Themselves: Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle and the Anglo-Boer War, was shortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography. She has three children and lives in North Somerset.
Fellows are nominated by peers and elected by our Council of writers – our governing Board. Being elected a Fellow of the RSL is a lifetime honour. This role gives them the opportunity to support other writers, readers and the future of literature. The RSL connects writers in the Fellowship to one another, and to a wider readership.
