Victoria Glendinning

Victoria Glendinning ( born 23 April 1937) 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. She 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).[3] She won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981 for her biography of Edith Sitwell. She was appointed CBE in 1998. She was awarded an honorary doctorate by Trinity College Dublin in 1995 and by the University of York in 2000.