Ruth Brandon
Ruth Brandon is a social and cultural historian. She is also a biographer, but does not write straight biographies, preferring to use her subjects' lives as a way into wider considerations. Thus, 'The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini' looks, via the Great Escaper's life and tricks, at what constitutes real magic, what it does and how it works; 'The New Women and the Old Men' and 'Surreal Lives', about, respectively, the early socialists and the Surrealists, are studies in charisma, deception, self-deception and love. In addition to her non-fiction, Ruth Brandon has written four detective stories and two literary novels, 'Tickling the Dragon' and 'The Uncertainty Principle'. She also writes occasional motoring columns for 'The Independent'.
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