About Victoria Glendinning
Victoria Glendinning is a British biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist. She is an honorary vice-president of English PEN and vice-president of the Royal Society of Literature. She won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread Prize for biography. Glendinning is the only person to have won the Whitbread Prize (now the Costa Book Award) for biography twice, for her works on Vita Sackville-West (1983) and Anthony Trollope (1992). Her father was the banker Frederic Seebohm (created a life peer as Baron Seebohm in April 1972), and her great-grandfather was the economic historian, also called Frederic Seebohm. She won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981 for her biography of Edith Sitwell.
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