11 Facts About Rebecca Stott

Rebecca Stott was born on 1964 and is a British writer and broadcaster and, until her retirement from teaching in 2021, was Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

Rebecca Stott was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2021.

Rebecca Stott is the author of two historical novels, of a biography of Charles Darwin and of a 2,200-year history of Darwin's predecessors.

Rebecca Stott is a regular broadcaster on the BBC Radio 4 programme A Point of View.

Rebecca Stott won a scholarship to Brighton and Hove High School in 1976.

Rebecca Stott then studied English and Art History at the University of York, then studied for a Master of Arts and a PhD at York.

Rebecca Stott taught at the University of York, the University of Leeds, then Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge before being appointed to a chair at the University of East Anglia in Norwich.

Rebecca Stott is an affiliated scholar at the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

Rebecca Stott's second novel, The Coral Thief, set in 1815 post-Napoleonic France, is a thriller that explores religion, rationalism, and evolutionary theory while its hero, a medical student, becomes drawn into a daring jewel heist.

In June 2017, Rebecca Stott published In the Days of Rain, a family memoir about growing up in the Exclusive Brethren, a secretive and separatist Christian fundamentalist cult.

Since the book was published Rebecca Stott has received over 300 letters from ex-members of the Brethren describing their own family stories of suicide, mental breakdown and broken families.