Anne Seb­ba is a prize-win­ning biog­ra­ph­er, lec­tur­er, and for­mer Reuters for­eign cor­re­spon­dent who has writ­ten sev­er­al books, includ­ing That Woman and Les Parisi­ennes. A for­mer chair of Britain’s Soci­ety of Authors and now on the Coun­cil, Anne is also a Senior Research Fel­low at the Insti­tute of His­tor­i­cal Research. She lives in London.