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Dr Ruth Scurr FRSL (born 1971, London){{Citation needed|date=December 2010}} is a British writer, historian and literary critic. She is a Fellow of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.[1] She was educated at St Bernard's Convent, Slough; Oxford University, Cambridge University and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. She won a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2000. Her first book, Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution (Chatto & Windus, 2006; Metropolitan Books, 2006) won the Franco-British Society Literary Prize (2006), was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize (2006), long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize (2007) and was listed among the 100 Best Books of the Decade in The Times in 2009.[2] It has been translated into five languages. Her second book, John Aubrey: My own Life (Chatto & Windus, 2015; New York Review of Books, 2016) was shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Biography Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. It was chosen as a 2015 Book of the Year in fifteen newspapers and magazines, including: the Daily Telegraph, the Financial Times, the Times, the Sunday Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the Sunday Express, the Guardian, the Spectator and the New Statesman. It was chosen as a 2016 Book of the Year by Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus Review and the Washington Post. Scurr began reviewing regularly for The Times and The Times Literary Supplement in 1997.[3] Since then she has also written for The Daily Telegraph,[4] The Observer, New Statesman,[5] The London Review of Books,[6] The New York Review of Books, The Nation,[7] The New York Observer, The Guardian [8] and The Wall Street Journal.[9] She has been a consultant editor at The Times Literary Supplement since 2015. She was a judge on the Man Booker Prize panel in 2007, and the Samuel Johnson Prize panel in 2014.[10][11][12] She is a member of the Folio Prize Academy.[13] Scurr is Director of Studies in Human, Social and Political Sciences for Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where she has been a Fellow since 2006. Her research interests include: 17th and 18th century history of ideas; biographical, autobiographical and life writing; the British and French Enlightenments; the French Revolution; Revolutionary Memoir; early Feminist Political Thought; and contemporary fiction in English. She was married to the political theorist John Dunn{{Citation needed|date=December 2010}} between 1997 and 2013. She has two daughters and a stepson. Bibliography{{Expand list|date=August 2015}}Books
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References1. ^https://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/people/ruth-scurr 2. ^http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3738.The_Times_Online_100_Best_Books_of_the_Decade_2000_2009_, 3. ^http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/tlssearch.do?querystring=Ruth+Scurr§ionId=1797&p=tls 4. ^http://journalisted.com/ruth-scurr?allarticles=yes 5. ^http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/ruth_scurr 6. ^http://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/ruth-scurr 7. ^http://www.thenation.com/authors/ruth-scurr 8. ^https://www.theguardian.com/profile/ruth-scurr 9. ^https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304275304579397013452253126 10. ^http://www.themanbookerprize.com/people/ruth-scurr 11. ^{{cite news |title= Ruth Scurr |author= Ruth Scurr |url= http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=209340 |newspaper= The Times |date= 15 June 2007 |accessdate=30 December 2010}} 12. ^http://www.thesamueljohnsonprize.co.uk 13. ^http://www.thefolioprize.com/the-academy/ External links
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