Charlotte Mendelson

Charlotte Jane Mendelson (born 1 November 1972) is an English novelist and editor. She was placed 60th on the Independent on Sunday Pink List 2007.[1]

Biography

Mendelson was born on 1 November 1972 in London, the daughter of Maurice Harvey Mendelson.[2] Her family moved to Oxford when she was two.[3] She attended Oxford High School and New College, Oxford where she received a BA in Ancient and Modern History. She was an editor at Jonathan Cape from 1996–1997 and at the Headline Review from 1998–2014.[2]

She has been a visiting professor of creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London since 2017 and a gardening correspondent at the New Yorker since 2017. She became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018.[2]

Bibliography
  • Love in Idleness (2001)
  • Daughters of Jerusalem (2003)
  • When We Were Bad (2007)
  • Almost English (2013)
  • Rhapsody In Green (2016)
  • The Exhibitionist (2022)

Awards and nominations

Personal life

Mendelson is Jewish and a lesbian. She and Joanna Briscoe have one son and one daughter.[3]

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-07-04. Retrieved 2010-04-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Mendelson, Charlotte Jane, (born 1 Nov. 1972), novelist, since 2001". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2016. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U284489. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 2021-11-01.
  3. Edemariam, Aida (8 May 2007). "'I wasn't posh and I wasn't confident, and I was really hideous'". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
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