Susie Boyt

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Susie Boyt
Born1969
OccupationJournalist, novelist

Susie Boyt FRSL (born January 1969) is a British novelist and journalist. She has published seven novels, and a memoir about her obsession with Judy Garland. Boyt was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.

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Life

Boyt is the youngest of five daughters of Suzy Boyt and artist Lucian Freud, and great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud. [1] Boyt was educated at Channing and at Camden School for Girls and read English at St Catherine's College, Oxford, graduating in 1992. [1] As a student her boyfriend died in a climbing accident. She later trained as a bereavement counsellor, and bereavement features as a theme in her novels. [2] [1]

Working variously at a PR agency, and a literary agency, she completed her first novel, The Normal Man, which was published in 1995 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. She returned to university to do a Masters in Anglo American Literary Relations at University College London, studying the works of Henry James and the poet John Berryman. [1]

As of January 2025, Boyt has published seven novels, the most recent being Loved and Missed (2021). In 2008, she published My Judy Garland Life, a layering of biography, hero-worship and self-help. The book was serialised on Radio 4, shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley prize and adapted as a musical by Amanda Whittington. [3] [4] In 2018 she edited The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories for Penguin. [5]

Boyt's journalism includes a column in the weekend Life & Arts section of the Financial Times. [6] She is married to Tom Astor, a film producer. They live with their two daughters in London. [1] Boyt is a director at the Hampstead Theatre. [7]

Boyt was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022. [8]

Novels

Non-fiction

Awards and nominations

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Hickman, Christie (9 July 2004). "Susie Boyt: Reasons to be cheerful". The Independent. Archived from the original on 7 July 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
  2. ↑ "Meet the Freuds by Sebastian Shakespeare and Olivia Cole". Evening Standard. 17 April 2009. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  3. ↑ "Writer: Susie Boyt - Writers • Auckland Writers Festival". www.writersfestival.co.nz. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
  4. ↑ Hickling, Alfred (7 February 2014). "Amanda Whittington: 'I doubt I'll ever be considered fashionable'". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 1 January 2025.
  5. ↑ "The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories by Henry James". www.penguin.co.nz. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
  6. ↑ "Susie Boyt | The Guardian". www.theguardian.com. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
  7. 1 2 "Boyt, Susie - Royal Society of Literature". 1 September 2023. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
  8. ↑ Shaffi, Sarah; Knight, Lucy (12 July 2022). "Adjoa Andoh, Russell T Davies and Michaela Coel elected to Royal Society of Literature". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 23 June 2023.
  9. ↑ "Susie Boyt: Scourge of the yummy mummy" . The Independent. 4 November 2012. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
  10. ↑ "Love & Fame by Susie Boyt – going through the emotions". The Guardian. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
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