Lorna Sage was professor of English at the University of East Anglia and twice dean of the faculty. She regularly reviewed for the Observer, London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement and New York Times Book Review. Her previous books include Women in the House of Fiction (1992), The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English (1999), a short monograph on Angela Carter, and Bad Blood, which won the 2000 Whitbread Biography Award and became a number one bestseller. She died in January 2001, and Moments of Truth: Twelve Twentieth-Century Women Writers (2002) and Good As Her Word: Selected Journalism (2004) were published posthumously .
