Victoria Glendinning

Victoria Glendinning

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Victoria Glendinning, CBE is a biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist. She is Vice-President of the RSL and an Honorary Vice-President of English PEN. Her biography of Edith Sitwell won her the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize, and Vita: the Life of V. Sackville-West and Trollope were awarded the Whitbread Biography Award. In 1998 she was awarded a CBE.