Lisa Appignanesi
Lisa Appignanesi is a novelist, writer, and broadcaster. Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present was published by Virago/Little Brown in February 2008.
Her fiction includes the prize-winning The Memory Man (Arcadia) and the bestselling psychological thrillers Sanctuary and The Dead of Winter (Bantam). Her non-fiction work includes the acclaimed family memoir, Losing the Dead (Chatto), as well as The Cabaret (Yale). She is the co-author of Freud's Women (Penguin) and co-editor of The Rushdie File.
Currently President of English PEN, she also edited Free Expression is No Offence (Penguin, 2006). A former university lecturer and Deputy Director of London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, she has also made several programmes for television and radio, presenting BBC 3's Night Waves.
She is General Editor of Profile Books’ Big Ideas series. She won the Scott Moncrieff prize for literary translation, along with John Berger, for The Year is 42. She is a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and Chair of the Freud Museum.
