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Ann Wroe is the Obituaries and Briefings Editor of The Economist.
After taking a first-class degree in History and a doctorate in medieval history (Oxford, 1975) she worked at the BBC World Service, covering French and Italian politics.
She joined The Economist in 1976 to cover American politics, and has held the posts of Books and Arts editor (1988-1992) and US editor (1992-2000). She has edited the Obituaries page, usually writing the obituaries herself, since October 2003.
She has written five books: “Lives, Lies and the Iran-Contra Affair” (I.B. Tauris, 1991); “A Fool and His Money: Life in a Partitioned Medieval Town” (Cape/Farrar Strauss, 1995; based on her Oxford thesis), “Pilate: The Biography of an Invented Man” (Cape, Random House, 1999; published in America as “Pontius Pilate”; shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize and the W.H. Smith award); and “Perkin: A Story of Deception” (published in America as “The Perfect Prince”) (Cape/Random House, 2003). Her fifth book, “Being Shelley”, on the inner life of the poet, was published last year by Cape and Pantheon.
She is the co-author, with Keith Colquhoun, of “The Economist Book of Obituaries”, published this autumn by Profile (UK) and Bloomberg (US).
She is the chairman of the judges of this year’s Keats-Shelley Prize, and a contributor to the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Shelley Studies.
She is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Literature and the English Association.
She is married with three sons and lives in London
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