Anna Stothard
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Writing History
Her first novel, Isabel and Rocco, (ISBN 0-09-944332-5), was published when she was 19. "Dazzling... remarkably accomplished," wrote The ObserverThe Observer
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. She has written for a number of newspapers, including columns for The Observer and The Sunday Telegraph.
She read English at Lincoln College, Oxford
Lincoln College, Oxford
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. Her first screenplay won the Scottish Screen and BBC Scotland Fast Forward Features prize. She was awarded a scholarship with the Masters programme at the American Film Institute
American Film Institute
The American Film Institute is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act...
, Los Angeles, which she attended until 2008.
She now lives in London and has finished her second novel, The Pink Hotel.