Sonia Purnell
Biographer and journalist
Sonia Purnell is a British biographer and journalist. She wrote A Woman of No Importance, the story of the American spy Virginia Hall.
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About Sonia Purnell
Purnell is a British journalist and writer whose career includes time at The Economist, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times. Her debut, Just Boris, made the longlist for the Orwell prize. Her Clementine Churchill biography was also a finalist for the Plutarch Award. A Woman of No Importance tells the story of Virginia Hall, an American spy who had one leg. Purnell won the Plutarch Prize for Best Biography in 2020. She has also written Kingmaker, a biography of Pamela Harriman, and is a New York Times bestselling author.