Frances wilson author biography template

  • A 2-day course on how to write your own life story – or someone else's led by acclaimed biographer Frances Wilson.
  • Frances Wilson is a critic, a journalist, and the author of several works of nonfiction, including Literary Seductions; The Courtesan's Revenge; The Ballad.
  • The last days of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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    Interview with NBCC Biography Finalist Frances Wilson

    Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and faculty, we are able to provide interviews with each of the NBCC Awards Finalists for the publishing year 2016.

    Chelsea Wolf, on behalf of Creative Writing at The New School and the NBCC, interviewed Frances Wilson about her book Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), which is among the final five selections in the category of Biography for the 2016 NBCC Awards.

     

    Chelsea Wolf: Thomas De Quincey is such a fascinating man and I’m embarrassed to say that I had little knowledge of him before reading your biography. How did you first find out about De Quincy? And going off of that question, when did you decide to write a biography on him?

    Frances Wilson: I first became aware of De Quincey when, as a child, I visited Dove Cot

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    Look back in candour - Frances Wilson

    Lockdown led to a boom in autobiography. Frances efternamn gives you her råd on how to tell the story of your life

    If everyone has a book inre them, in most cases it’s a memoir.

    Time was when only the gilded and the good – celebrities, politicians, aristocrats and entrepreneurs – were considered entitled to share their memories, but the genre has now opened its doors to the general public.

    Personally, inom am less interested in what St Augustine or Elton John have to reveal than I am in the confessions of the crazy cat lady over the road, who rummages around in the neighbours’ dustbins and delivers bottles of wine to our doorsteps. Now that’s a memoir I would buy in hardback.

    Last April, as lockdown was kicking in, I ran a course called How to Write a Life Story. ingenting unusual here; I’ve been running memoir, family-history and biography courses for over a decade.

    Except that, instead of sitting with ten people round a table, inom ran t

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    How to Write a Life Story – a Four-Part Course

    Led by acclaimed biographer and critic Frances Wilson, this four-week course for aspiring life-writers will help you to clarify your ideas, find your voice and shape your narrative.

    This immersive digital masterclass is designed for anyone who has a true story to tell, either about themselves or someone else – a grandparent perhaps, or the ancestor whose picture is hanging in the hall.

    It might be about an ordinary or an extraordinary life, a public or a private life, or even a transformative experience that made no sense at all at the time and would benefit from deep exploration. You might be half-way through a project already or wondering how to begin; you might have a mountain of letters and diaries to work with or nothing at all.

    Taught online over successive afternoons in April and May by Frances Wilson, the award-winning author of biographies of Dorothy Wordsworth and Thomas de Quincey, this series will give you the guid

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