Summary
Life edit
Boyt is the daughter of Suzy Boyt and artist Lucian Freud and great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud. Boyt was educated at Channing and at Camden School for Girls and read English at St Catherine's College, Oxford, graduating in 1992. As a student her boyfriend died in a climbing accident. She later trained as a bereavement counsellor.[1]
Working variously at a PR agency, and a literary agency, she completed her first novel, The Normal Man, which was published in 1995 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. She returned to university to do a Masters in Anglo American Literary Relations at University College London studying the works of Henry James and the poet John Berryman.[citation needed]
To date, she has published seven novels, the most recent being Loved and Missed (2021). In 2008, she published My Judy Garland Life, a layering of biography, hero-worship and self-help. Her journalism includes a column in the weekend Life & Arts section of the Financial Times. She is married to Tom Astor, a film producer. They live with their two daughters in London.[citation needed]
Boyt was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.[2]
Novels edit
Non-fiction edit
- My Judy Garland Life, 2008
Awards and nominations edit
- The Last Hope of Girls was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
- Only Human has been shortlisted for the Mind Book of the Year Award
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Meet the Freuds by Sebastian Shakespeare and Olivia Cole". Evening Standard. 17 April 2009. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
- ^ Shaffi, Sarah; Knight, Lucy (12 July 2022). "Adjoa Andoh, Russell T Davies and Michaela Coel elected to Royal Society of Literature". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
- ^ "Susie Boyt: Scourge of the yummy mummy". The Independent. 4 November 2012. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
- ^ "Love & Fame by Susie Boyt – going through the emotions". The Guardian. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 10 September 2020.