Sarah Bakewell
British biographer and author
Sarah Bakewell is a British biographer. Her books How to Live and At The Existentialist Café explore philosophical ideas as well as telling life stories.
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British Born 1963 in Bournemouth, United Kingdom
About Sarah Bakewell
Sarah Bakewell was born in Bournemouth, England, and spent most of her childhood in Sydney, Australia. She studied philosophy at the University of Essex, then spent ten years as a curator at London's Wellcome Library, where she looked after early printed books. She became a full-time writer in 2002. How to Live, her book about Montaigne, was a best-seller and won the Duff Cooper Prize and the US National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. In 2016 the New York Times placed At The Existentialist Café on its list of the year's ten best books. She has also received the Windham–Campbell Literature Prize in Non-Fiction. She lives in London and teaches on the creative writing master's program at Kellogg College, University of Oxford.