Ann Wroe is a journalist and author – working as Briefings and Obituaries editor of The Economist. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Literature and the English Association.
Books in order of publication:
Lives, Lies, and the Iran-Contra Affair, I.B. Tauris (New York, NY), 1991
A Fool and His Money: Life in a Partitioned Town in Fourteenth-Century France, Hill & Wang (New York, NY), 1995
Pilate: The Biography of an Invented Man, Vintage (London, England), 2000, also published as Pontius Pilate, Modern Library (New York, NY), 2000.
Perkin: A Story of Deception, Jonathan Cape (London, England), 2003, also published as The Perfect Prince: The Mystery of Perkin Warbeck and His Quest for the Throne of England, Random House (New York, NY), 2003
Being Shelley: The Poet’s Search for Himself, Pantheon Books (New York, NY), 2007
The Economist Book of Obituaries (co-author with Keith Colquhoun), Profile (UK), 2008
Orpheus: The Song of Life, Jonathan Cape (London), 2011
Six Facets of Light, Jonathan Cape (London, England), 2016
Francis, A Life in Songs, Jonathan Cape (London, England), 2018
Lifescapes: A Biographer’s Search for the Soul – 2023
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