Lucy Angela Hughes-Hallett (born 7 December 1951) is a British cultural historian, biographer and novelist. In November 2013, she won the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction for her biography of the Italian writer Gabriele D’Annunzio, The Pike. The book also won the 2013 Costa Book Award (Biography) and the Duff Cooper Prize. Her most recent book is The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham.
Books in order of publication:
Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions. New York: Harper & Row – 1990
Heroes, New York: Alfred A. Knopf – 2004
Gabriele d’Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War, New York: Alfred A. Knopf – 2013
Peculiar Ground: A Novel, London: 4th Estate – 2017
Fabulous: Stories, London: 4th Estate – 2019
The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham, London: 4th Estate; New York: HarperCollins Publishers. – 2024
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