Rebecca Stott

Rebecca Stott (born 1964) is a British writer, currently professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of two historical novels, Ghostwalk (2007) and The Coral Thief (2009), a biography of Charles Darwin called Darwin and the Barnacle (2003) and 2,200-year history of Darwin's predecessors called Darwin's Ghosts. Her most recent book, a memoir called In The Days of Rain: A Daughter, A Father, A Cult (2017) an account of her childhood growing up in the Exclusive Brethren, a highly secretive and separatist Christian fundamentalist cult, won the 2017 Costa Book Award in the Biography category.[1] She is a regular broadcaster on the Radio Four programme A Point of View and has just finished a novel set in the sixth century. She has three grown-up children, Jacob, Kezia and the actress Hannah Morrish. She lives in Norwich in an old herbarium and library.