Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Lucy Hughes-Hallett’s last work of non-fiction was The Pike: Gabriele D’annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of Warwhich won the Baillie Gifford Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize, the Political Biography of the Year Award and the Costa Biography Award. In 2020 it was named ‘biography of the decade’ in the Sunday Times. Since then Lucy has also written the novel Peculiar Ground (set largely in the seventeenth century) which was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. Her new book, The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of The Duke of Buckingham, is a biography of one of the most flamboyant and enigmatic seventeenth-century Englishmen at the heart of political and royal life.
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Is the creative gene inherited or can it be learned? Can we answer the question of nature or nurture by looking at the lives of writers?