11 Facts About Rachel Owen

Rachel Mary Owen was a Welsh photographer, printmaker and lecturer on medieval Italian literature.

Rachel Owen was married to the Radiohead singer Thom Yorke; they announced their separation in 2015.

In 2001, Owen received a PhD from the University of London, where her research was on the illustrations in manuscripts of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.

Rachel Owen was a lecturer in Italian with a focus on medieval Italian literature, where she examined illustration and its reception in Divine Comedy.

Rachel Owen taught art history and Dante studies for visiting students at the University of Oxford.

Rachel Owen was a fine-art printmaker and a member of the Oxford Printmakers Co-operative.

Rachel Owen's artwork was used on the cover of the 1993 Radiohead single "Pop Is Dead".

For 23 years, Rachel Owen was in a relationship with the Radiohead singer Thom Yorke, whom she met while they were students at the University of Exeter.

Rachel Owen and Yorke had a son, Noah, born in 2001, and a daughter, Agnes, born in 2004.

Rachel Owen died of cancer on 18 December 2016 at the age of 48.

Rachel Owen continued to teach Italian into her final months.