Rachel Holmes author biography, plus links to books by Rachel Holmes.

Rachel Holmes

Holmes is the author of The Hottentot Venus: The life and death of Saartjie Baartman and The Secret Life of Dr James Barry. Rachel co-edited, with Lisa Appignanesi and Susie Orbach, the much-discussed Fifty Shades of Feminism. She was co-commissioning editor of Sixty Six Books: 21st Century Writers Speak to the King James Bible with Josie Rourke and Chris Haydon. Her latest book, Eleanor Marx: A Life is described by Golden PEN Award winner Gillian Slovo as "a dazzling account of a woman and her family, an age and a movement, that grips from the first page to the last."

In 2010 she received an Arts Council cultural leadership award as one of Britain's Fifty Women to Watch. Rachel Holmes has worked with and for British Council literature festivals and international programmes since 2000and is curator of the new Impossible Conversations talks series at the Donmar Warehouse in London.

This biography was last updated on 02/24/2015.

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