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Biography:
Sheila MacLeod was born in the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. She studied at Wycombe Abbey School, Bucks., then at Somerville College, Oxford, where she obtained a BA (Hons) Second Class in English (1961) and an MA in English (1993).
She went to Birkbeck College, University of London, where she obtained a BA First Class in French (1996) and was also a joint winner of the Marjorie Gould Prize for the best results of the year.
She is presently studying for an MA in Romance Languages and Literatures (French) at Birkbeck.
She has published many books and earned many impressive awards.
The Moving Accident published by Faber & Faber (1968) and The Snow-White Soliloquies published by Secker & Warburg (1970) both earned her the Scottish Arts Council Publication Award.
Circuit-Breaker published by Bodley Head (1977) was a Runner-up for the Guardian Fiction Prize.
The Art of Starvation, Virago, (1981) (Autobiography/Psychology), is her most successful book so far and was a runner-up for Elle Readers’ Prize and was the winner of the MIND Prize of the New York Times Book Review: Book of the Year [1982].
Her second most successful book is Axioms, published by Quartet (1984), and received huge coverage in newspapers and magazines world wide.
Other novels include Letters from the Portuguese (Secker & Warburg, 1971), Xanthe and the Robots (Bodley Head, 1976) and a Literary Criticism: Lawrence’s Men and Women (Heinemann, 1985).
She wrote other essays: "A Fairy Story" in Very Heaven: Looking Back at the Sixties (Virago, 1988), "Drunken Drowning" in A Certain Age (Virago, 1993), "It is Margaret You Mourn For" in On the Death of a Parent (Virago, 1994) and again "The Art of Starvation" in Mind Readings: Writers’ Journeys through Mental States (MIND/Minerva, 1996).
As a journalist, she was a regular reviewer of fiction for the London Evening Standard 1982-8, and of educational TV, film, theatre and books for The Times Educational Supplement, 1981-91.
She is a contributor to The Observer, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Literary Review, The Times Literary Supplement, The Times Educational Supplement, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Woman’s Journal, Honey and Good Housekeeping.
She is presently the Editor of Writers’ Newsletter, the magazine of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain.
In television, she wrote the plays: They Put You Where You Are (with Paul Jones from Manfred Mann), BBC 2, 1965, and God Speed Co-operation, BBC 2, 1985.
She was a writer in Residence at the Napsbury Psychiatric Hospital, St Alban’s, England, 1987.
She is now preparing a new novel which she describes as a new departure. Watch this space for more information.
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