Carole Seymour-Jones is a writer, biographer and human rights activist. Her most recent book is A Dangerous Liaison, a dual biography of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, which was shortlisted for the Marsh Biography Award and has been translated into several European languages. She is also the author of Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, first wife of TS Eliot and of Beatrice Webb: Woman in Conflict.

Carole teaches biography and life writing on the MA in Creative Non-Fiction at City University, London.

Carole Angier is the biographer of Jean Rhys and Primo Levi. She recently edited three books of refugee writing. She teaches Life Writing at Birkbeck and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Michael Holroyd has written biographies of Lytton Strachey, Augustus John and Bernard Shaw and two volumes of memoirs.