Jennifer Sheila Uglow OBE is a British biographer, critic and publisher. The editorial director of Chatto & Windus, she has written critically acclaimed biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hogarth, Thomas Bewick and the Lunar Society, among others, and has also compiled a women's biographical dictionary. She won the 2002 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 2003 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for The Lunar Men: The Friends who Made the Future 1730?1810, and her works have twice been shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. In 2010 she was appointed President of the Alliance of Literary Societies. [More at Wikipedia]

January 1st, 1947 in (Age 77)