When: Tuesday 7 November,
Where: Hatchards, Piccadilly
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Come and meet Ann Wroe, winner of the Biographers’ Club Exceptional Contribution to Biography award in 2020, who will be in conversation with Iona Mclaren. Her new book, Lifescapes, reflects on the art of trying to catch lives on the page. Ann Wroe is the acclaimed author of books including Pilate: The Biography of an Invented Man, Perkin: A Story of Deception, Being Shelley: The Poet’s Search for Himself, and Six Facets of Light.
The acclaimed biographer and obituarist, winner of the Biographers’ Club’s Exceptional Contribution to Biography Prize for 2020, reflects on a career spent pursuing life: a process, as she sees it, not of chronological narration but of trying to seize souls. In a blend of memoir, biography, observation and poetry, she reflects on the art and impossibility of capturing this phenomenon on the page. Through her experiences and those of others, through people she has known, studied or merely glimpsed through windows, she movingly explores what makes a life and how that life lingers after. From biography Wroe moves to intimations of a far greater life: one encountered in childhood, in artistic creation, dreams, birth and death.