Ruth Brandon
Ruth Brandon was a trainee producer for the BBC, working in radio and television after reading French and Spanish at Girton College, Cambridge. But she found she preferred writing, and moved to freelance journalism, and eventually to books. Ruth is primarily a non-fiction writer, using biography to look at social and cultural history through individual lives. Ruth lives in London. She is married, with one daughter.
Spiritualists: Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Left, Right and Centre
Out of Body, Out of Mind
The Burning Question: The Anti-Nuclear Movement Since 1945
Mind Out
Being Divine: Biography of Sarah Bernhardt
The Gorgon’s Smile
Tickling the Dragon
The Uncertainty Principle
The New Women and the Old Men
Surreal Lives
The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini
Automobile: How the Car Changed Life
