Diana souhami biography

Diana Souhami was brought up in London and studied philosophy at Hull University.

Diana Souhami (born 25 August 1940) is an English writer of biographies, short stories and plays....

Diana Souhami

English writer

Diana Souhami (born 25 August ) is an English writer of biographies, short stories and plays.

She is noted for her unconventional biographies of prominent lesbians.

Biography

Souhami was brought up in London and studied philosophy at University of Hull.

Diana Souhami weaves their stories into those of the four central women to create a vivid moving tapestry of life among the Modernists in pre-War Paris.

Diana Souhami is the author of Gluck: Her Biography, Gertrude and Alice, Greta and Cecil, The Trials of Radclyffe Hall (shortlisted for the James Tait Black.

Diana Souhami (born 25 August 1940) is an English writer of biographies, short stories and plays.

Diana Souhami is an English writer of biographies, short stories and plays.

Born Hannah Gluckstein in 1895 into the family that founded the J. Lyons & Co. catering company, she had passionate affairs with society women such as Constance.

Before turning to writing biography, she worked in the publications department of the BBC.^[1] While there, she published short stories, wrote plays that were performed at Edinburgh Festival, The Kings Head in Islington, and broadcast as radio and television plays by the BBC.

She devised an exhibition for the British Council called A Woman's Place: The Changing Picture of Women in Britain, which in toured 30 countries. Her book based on this exhibition was published by Penguin Books.^[2] She also reviewed books and plays for newspapers.

In she was approached by Pandora Press and received a commission to write a biography of the artist Gluck.^[3]

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