Lilian Pizzichini

Lilian Pizzichini’s first book, Dead Men's Wages – a part biography, part memoir about her conman grandfather living in London’s demimonde – won the 2002 CWA Gold Dagger for non-fiction. Her second, The Blue Hour: A Portrait of Jean Rhys, was published in 2009 to critical acclaim. Lilian Pizzichini has worked for the Literary Review, the Times Literary Supplement and as writer-in-residence at a prison. She lives in London.