16 Facts About Anne Sebba

Anne Sebba is a British biographer, lecturer and journalist.

Anne Sebba is the author of nine non-fiction books for adults, two biographies for children, and several introductions to reprinted classics.

Anne Sebba was born in London on 31 December 1951.

Anne Sebba wrote her first book while living in New York City and now lives in London.

Anne Sebba has been cited as an authority on biography.

In 2009, Anne Sebba wrote and presented The Daffodil Maiden on BBC Radio 3.

In September 2009, Anne Sebba joined the management committee of the Society of Authors.

Anne Sebba was chair of the committee between 2012 and 2014 and is a member of the Council of the Society of Authors.

Anne Sebba is a longstanding member of English PEN and after several years on the Writers in Prison Committee served twice on the PEN management committee.

Anne Sebba visited Turkey twice as an official observer for PEN for the trial of journalist Asiye Guzel Zeybeck.

Anne Sebba has served on the judging panel of the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize.

In 2012, Anne Sebba spoke at the Beijing and Shanghai Literary Festivals and the Sydney Writers' Festival.

Anne Sebba is a Trustee of the National Archives Trust, a senior research fellow of the Institute of Historical Research, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

In 2016, Anne Sebba published Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s, published in the United States as Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died under the Nazi Occupation.

In 2018, a reviewer in Le Figaro Magazine coined the phrase "La Methode Anne Sebba" to describe the author's method of linking interviews with living people and archive material to create a tableau of women during the dark years.

Anne Sebba's book received wide ranging positive reviews and was shortlisted for the Wingate Award of 2022.