Caitlin Davies was born on 6 March 1964 and is an English author, historian, journalist and teacher.
11 Facts About Caitlin Davies
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Caitlin Davies has written several books about social history and women's history.
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Caitlin Davies was born on 6 March 1964, the daughter of Hunter Davies and Margaret Forster, both well-known writers.
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Caitlin Davies was twice arrested as a journalist, once for "causing fear and alarm", and acquitted.
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Caitlin Davies returned to England with her daughter after divorcing her husband and published a memoir about her experiences, called Place of Reeds.
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Caitlin Davies is the author of six novels; Jamestown Blues, Black Mulberries, Friends Like Us, The Ghost of Lily Painter, Family Likeness, and Daisy Belle: Swimming Champion of the World.
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Caitlin Davies wrote an illustrated non-fiction book on the bathing ponds and lido on Hampstead Heath, Taking the Waters: a swim around Hampstead Heath, and a social history of Camden Lock.
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Caitlin Davies's work has appeared in The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Mail on Sunday, Town and Country and Tate Etc.
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Caitlin Davies' non-fiction book, Bad Girls, is a history of Holloway Prison in north London, formerly the largest women's prison in Western Europe.
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Caitlin Davies received a grant from The Author's Foundation, administered by the Society of Authors, to research the book.
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From 2014 to 2017, Caitlin Davies worked as a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Westminster.