Rachel Lichtenstein is a writer, artist and archivist.

In 1999 she wrote, with Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair FRSL is a British writer and filmmaker. Much of his work is rooted in London, most recently within the influences of psychogeography.-Life and work:...

 Rodinsky's Room

Rodinsky's Room

Rodinsky's Room is a non-fiction book by Rachel Lichtenstein and Iain Sinclair. It is an oral history of the neighbourhood of Spitalfields in the East End of London...

, since then she has published Rodinsky's Whitechapel (1999), and On Brick Lane (2007). This last will be joined by two other books, Hatton Garden and Portobello Road to form a trilogy on London street markets.

In 2003, she became the British Library

British Library

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom, and is the world's largest library in terms of total number of items. The library is a major research library, holding over 150 million items from every country in the world, in virtually all known languages and in many formats,...

's first Pearson Creative Research Fellow, producing a work entitled Add. 17469: A Little Dust Whispered – both as an installation within the Library, and a subsequent book.

Works

Books

• Rodinsky's Room
  Rodinsky's Room
  Rodinsky's Room is a non-fiction book by Rachel Lichtenstein and Iain Sinclair. It is an oral history of the neighbourhood of Spitalfields in the East End of London...
  
  , with Iain Sinclair
  Iain Sinclair
  Iain Sinclair FRSL is a British writer and filmmaker. Much of his work is rooted in London, most recently within the influences of psychogeography.-Life and work:...
  
  (Granta Books, 1999)
• Rodinsky's Whitechapel, (Granta Books, 1999)
• On Brick Lane, {Hamish Hamilton, 2007}

Installations

• Shoah (1993)
• Add. 17469: A Little Dust Whispered (2003)