Susie Boyt
Susie Boyt | |
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| Born | 1969 (age 56–57) |
| Occupation | Journalist, novelist |
Susie Boyt FRSL (born January 1969) is a British novelist and journalist. She has published seven novels, and a memoir about her obsession with Judy Garland. Boyt was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.
Life
[edit | edit source]Boyt is the youngest of five daughters of Suzy Boyt and artist Lucian Freud, and great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud.[1] Boyt was educated at Channing and at Camden School for Girls and read English at St Catherine's College, Oxford, graduating in 1992.[1] As a student her boyfriend died in a climbing accident. She later trained as a bereavement counsellor, and bereavement features as a theme in her novels.[2][1]
Working variously at a PR agency, and a literary agency, she completed her first novel, The Normal Man, which was published in 1995 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. She returned to university to do a Masters in Anglo American Literary Relations at University College London, studying the works of Henry James and the poet John Berryman.[1]
As of January 2025[update], Boyt has published seven novels, the most recent being Loved and Missed (2021). In 2008, she published My Judy Garland Life, a layering of biography, hero-worship and self-help. The book was serialised on Radio 4, shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley prize and adapted as a musical by Amanda Whittington.[3][4] In 2018 she edited The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories for Penguin.[5]
Boyt's journalism includes a column in the weekend Life & Arts section of the Financial Times.[6] She is married to Tom Astor, a film producer. They live with their two daughters in London.[1] Boyt is a director at the Hampstead Theatre.[7]
Boyt was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.[8]
Novels
[edit | edit source]- The Normal Man, 1995
- The Characters of Love, 1996
- The Last Hope of Girls, 2001
- Only Human, 2004
- The Small Hours, 2012[9]
- Love & Fame, 2017[10]
- Loved and Missed, 2021
Non-fiction
[edit | edit source]- My Judy Garland Life, 2008
Awards and nominations
[edit | edit source]- The Last Hope of Girls was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize[1]
- Only Human was shortlisted for the Mind Book of the Year Award
- My Judy Garland Life was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize[7]
See also
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- Living people
- 1969 births
- British people of German-Jewish descent
- Freud family
- People educated at Camden School for Girls
- Alumni of St Catherine's College, Oxford
- Alumni of University College London
- Novelists from London
- 20th-century British women novelists
- 21st-century British women novelists
- 20th-century English novelists
- 21st-century English novelists
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
- People educated at Channing School
- Journalists from London
- 21st-century English journalists
- 21st-century British women journalists
- English women journalists