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Linda Grant
For the American historian, see Linda Grant DePauw.
English novelist and journalist
Linda GrantFRSL (born 15 February 1951) is an English novelist and journalist.
Early life
[edit]Linda Grant was born in Liverpool. She was the oldest child of Benny Ginsberg, a businessman who made and sold hairdressing products, and Rose Haft; both parents had immigrant backgrounds – Benny's family was Polish-Jewish, Rose's Russian-Jewish – and they adopted the surname Grant in the early 1950s.[1]
She was educated at The Belvedere School, read English at the University of York (1972 to 1975), then completed an M.A. in English at McMaster University in Canada. She did post-graduate studies at Simon Fraser University.[2]
Career
[edit]In 1985, Grant returned to England and became a journalist, working for The Guardian, and eventually wrote her own column for eighteen months.[3] She published her first book, a non-fiction work, Sexing the Millennium: A Political History of the Sexual Revolution, in 1993. She wrote a personal memoir of her mother's fight with vascular dementia called Remind Me Who I Am, Again, which was cited in a discussion about ageing on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed in December 2003.[4]
Her fiction
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Linda Grant
Linda Grant is an award winning novelist. Linda won the Orange Prize for Fiction for When I Lived in Modern Times (2000). Still Here (2002) was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and A Stranger City, published in 2019, won the Wingate Literary Prize in 2020. Linda's latest novel, The Story of the Forest, is a sweeping family saga that spans the first half of the 20th century from the edge of the Baltic Sea to Soho via Liverpool. You can find The Story of the Forest and Linda's other novels on our catalogue.
What role did storytelling play in your life as you were growing up?
A very large one. There were few family documents, no family bible, my father, born in Poland, had no birth certificate, and the general rule of thumb for them as immigrants was to embellish the truth, tell the authorities what they want to hear. Facts were regarded as inconvenient, how you told a story was what mattered, how to entertain and and convince.
The family stories I grew up with were often very different when told by different relatives, I never knew who to believe. I think that all immigrants understand that they are in the business of reinvention for a new country and from that arise the possibility of fictions.