Jenny Uglow
Jenny Uglow | |
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| Born | 1947 (age 78–79) |
| Nationality | British |
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| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Subject | Arts |
| Notable awards | James Tait Black Memorial Prize Hessell-Tiltman Prize Marfield Prize |
| Spouse | Steve Uglow, m. 1971 |
| Children | 4 |
Jennifer Sheila Uglow (née Crowther, born 1947) is an English biographer, historian, critic and publisher, and a former editorial director of Chatto & Windus. She has written critically acclaimed biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hogarth, Thomas Bewick, Edward Lear, and Gilbert White, as well as a group biography of the Lunar Society and a panoramic account of living in Britain through the Napoleonic wars.
Among various prizes and awards, she has won the 2002 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 2003 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for The Lunar Men: The Friends who Made the Future 1730–1810, and the 2018 Hawthornden Prize for Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense. She has also chaired the Council of the Royal Society of Literature, and was awarded the society's Benson Medal in 2012. She has honorary degrees and in 2008, she was awarded the OBE for services to literature and publishing.