There are currently 10 names in this directory beginning with the letter D.
Dismore Jane
ane’s latest book (Feb. 2022) is Tangled Souls: Love and Scandal among the Victorian Aristocracy (The History Press). In 2020 her book Princess: The Early Life of Queen Elizabeth II was a source for the ITV and PBS documentary, Our Queen in Wartime. Her second book, Duchesses: Living in 21st Century Britain was the first to look at the lives of Britain’s non-royal duchesses. In 2013, her first non-fiction book, The Voice From the Garden was long-listed for the New Angle Prize for Literature. She is the recipient (Oct. 2021) of an Antonia Fraser Award for a work in progress of a proposed biography (Lady Dorothy Mills). Jane also writes for newspapers and magazines. Publications include The Times, History Today, Majesty, BRITAIN. She is a former teacher and practising solicitor.
Dr J D Prosser
Jay Prosser has produced several academic books related to life writing and literature. These includeSecond Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality (Columbia University Press), and Light in the Dark Room: Photography and Loss (Minnesota University Press). He is Reader in Humanities at the University of Leeds, where he teaches and researches creative nonfiction, particularly life writing. Jay is currently redrafting his own family memoir, provisionally entitled Empire’s Loving Strangers: Journeys through an Asian-Jewish Camphorwood Chest, which was shortlisted for the Tony Lothian Prize in 2019.
Dr Prosser, Jay
Jay Prosser is the 2020 winner of BIO’s Hazel Rowley Prize (also shortlisted for the Biographers’ Club 2019 Tony Lothian Prize) for The Camphorwood chest: A Legacy of Loving Strangers. This work in progress explores one mixed-race Asian Jewish family’s experiences and connections across empires and centuries. Prosser is Reader in Humanities at the University of Leeds in England, where he has taught since 1999.
Dunn, Daisy
Daisy Dunn is the author of In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny (William Collins, 2019), Of Gods and Men: 100 Stories from Ancient Greece and Rome (Head of Zeus, 2019), Homer: A Ladybird Expert Book (Michael Joseph, 2019), Catullus’ Bedspread: The Life of Rome’s Most Erotic Poet (William Collins, 2016) and The Poems of Catullus: A New Translation (William Collins, 2016). She writes for a number of newspapers and magazines and has presented two short films for BBC Ideas. She has a doctorate in Classics and the History of Art and is editor of ARGO: A Hellenic Review.