Carole Angier is the author of award-winning biographies "Jean Rhys: Life & Work "(shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and winner of a Writers' Guild Non-Fiction Award) and "The Double Bond: A Life of Primo Levi". She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. She has edited several books of refugee writing, and teaches life writing at Birkbeck College, London University.