Andrea Stuart FRSL

Andrea Stuart FRSL

Andrea Stuart was born and raised in the Caribbean. .She studied English at the University of East Anglia and French at the Sorbonne. Her first book, Showgirls, was published by Jonathan Cape in 1996. It was adapted into a two-part documentary for the Discovery Channel in 1998 and has since inspired a theatrical show, a contemporary dance piece and a number of burlesque performances. Her second book, The Rose of Martinique: A Biography of Napoleon’s Josephine, was published by Macmillan in 2003. It has subsequently been published in the US by Grove Press (2004), in Germany by Karl Blessing Verlag (2004), in France by Perrin (2006} and in Sweden by Prisma (2006). The Rose of Martinique won the Enid McLeod Literary Prize in 2004. Her third book Sugar in the Blood: One Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire was published in England (2012) by Portobello Books and in the US by Knopf in January (2013). It was shortlisted for the BOCAS Literary Prize, the Spears Book Award and was the Boston Globe’s non-fiction pick of 2013. Her most recent piece “Tourist”, a meditation on female sexuality, was published in Granta Magazine’s autumn 2014 issue. She has been published in numerous anthologies, her articles have been published in a range of newspapers and magazines and she regularly reviews books for the Independent. She is currently a visiting lecturer at both the Royal College of Art and the University of Reading. She also commissions for an academic publishing list. In the past she has worked as an editor, a TV producer and a researcher.

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