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Anne Chisholm
OBE FRSL
Born (1940-07-28) 28 July 1940 (age 86)
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • biographer
Spouse
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(m. 1975)​
Children1 (adopted)
Writing career
GenreBiography

Anne Chisholm OBE FRSL (born 28 July 1940) is a British journalist and biographer. She worked as a staff member at Time and The Observer, and has worked as a critic for the Sunday Telegraph. She was written biographies like Nancy Cunard (1979), Lord Beaverbrook: A Life (1992), Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (1998), and Frances Partridge: The Biography (2009).

Biography

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Anne Chisholm was born on 28 July 1940.[1] Her journalism career started at Private Eye before she worked as a staff member at Time and The Observer and as a critic for the Sunday Telegraph.[2] In response to Chisholm's 1988 The Spectator negative review that exposed spoilers for the novel Rivals, its author Jilly Cooper named Chisolm, a fictional goat in her 2010 novel Jump!, after her; Chisholm said of the incident: "On the whole, Cooper's revenge could have been a great deal worse. And all publicity is good publicity."[3][4] She has also worked as an editor and reader for Jonathan Cape and Bloomsbury Publishing, as well as a judge for the 1993[5] Booker Prize and the V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize.[2]

In July 1972, Chisholm released Philosophers of the Earth, where she interviewed several ecologists to "bridge the gap between the professional ecologist and the interested layman".[6] She has also written several biographies, with her first being Nancy Cunard (1979),[2] and the next being Lord Beaverbrook: A Life (1992), Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (1998),[2] and Frances Partridge: The Biography (2009).[7] She once published Faces of Hiroshima (1985), centred on the Hiroshima Maidens.[8] She also published an edited volume of the letters of painter Dora Carrington.[9]

Chisholm was a 2003 Visiting Fellow at the University of Texas British Studies programme, and has also worked as an organiser for two Arvon Foundation writing courses.[2] She has also served in the Royal Society of Literature's council,[2] as well as a vice president.[10]

In 1989, Chisholm was awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[11] At the 2015 New Year Honours, she was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire "for services to literature".[12]

In 1975, Chisholm married Michael Davie, for whom she worked as an assistant at The Observer's Pendennis column and who later became editor of The Age.[13] The couple had an adopted son – her nephew Jesse, who died in a car collision,[14] and Chisholm had three step-children from Davie's previous marriage.[13]

Works

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  • Philosophers of the Earth (1972)[a]
  • Nancy Cunard (1979)[b]
  • Faces of Hiroshima (1985)[c]
  • (with Michael Davie) Lord Beaverbrook: A Life (1992)[d]
  • Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life (1998)[e]
  • Frances Partridge: The Biography (2009)[f]
  • (ed.) Carrington's Letters: Her Art, Her Loves, Her Friendships (2017)[g]

Notes

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  1. ↑ Reviews of this book:[15][16][17][18]
  2. ↑ Reviews of this book:[19][20][21][22][23][24][25]
  3. ↑ Reviews of this book:[8][26][27][28]
  4. ↑ Reviews of this book:[29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43]
  5. ↑ Reviews of this book:[44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51]
  6. ↑ Reviews of this book:[52][53][54][55]
  7. ↑ Reviews of this book:[9][56][57][58]

References

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  1. ↑ "Chisholm, Anne - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress, from LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 24 January 2025. Retrieved 23 September 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Anne Chisholm". Royal Literary Fund. Retrieved 23 September 2026.
  3. ↑ "Cooper's revenge: goat named after critic". The Daily Telegraph. 11 October 2010. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ McSmith, Andy (14 October 2010). "Poison pens: The art of literary revenge". The Independent. Retrieved 23 September 2026.
  5. ↑ "Anne Chisholm". The Booker Prizes. Retrieved 23 September 2026.
  6. ↑ "A spotlight on scientific gurus". The Northern Echo (Yorkshire ed.). 26 July 1972. p. 6.
  7. ↑ "Anne Chisholm". rcwlitagency.com. Retrieved 23 September 2026.
  8. 1 2 "Faces of Hiroshima". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 23 September 2026.
  9. 1 2 Feigel, Lara (8 December 2017). "Carrington's Letters edited by Anne Chisholm - just the three of us". FT.com. ProQuest 1985568358.
  10. ↑ Marnham, Patrick. "How the Royal Society of Literature lost the plot". Prospect. Retrieved 23 September 2026.
  11. ↑ "Chisholm, Anne". Royal Society of Literature. Retrieved 23 September 2026.
  12. ↑ "New Year's Honours 2015". Government of the United Kingdom. p. 25.
  13. 1 2 "Michael Davie". The Independent. 7 December 2005. Retrieved 23 September 2026.
  14. ↑ Callaghan, Morgan (8 March 2018). "Anne Chisholm: The human factor". Royal Society of Literature. Retrieved 23 September 2026.
  15. ↑ "Frank views on complex subject". The Guardian Journal. 30 August 1972. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ↑ "PHILOSOPHERS OF THE EARTH: Conversations with Ecologists by Anne Chisholm". Kirkus Reviews. 1 November 1972. Retrieved 23 September 2026.
  17. ↑ Rhodes, Gordon (18 September 1972). "Man's behavior in and beyond his own backyard". Eastern Daily Press. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ↑ "The library corner". The Winona Daily News. 17 June 1973. p. 5B – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ↑ Braybrooke, Neville (17 November 1979). "Inconstant nymph". The Age. p. 28 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ↑ Broyard, Anatole (26 May 1979). "Glamour Can Kill You". New York Times. p. 17. ProQuest 120861155.
  21. ↑ French, William (16 June 1979). "Beautiful, rich and promiscuous, Nancy Cunard was a fascinating phenomenon NANCY CUNARD". The Globe and Mail. p. P42. ProQuest 387055695.
  22. ↑ Hughes, David (15 July 1979). "A 'madwoman' ahead of her time". Chicago Tribune Book World. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. ↑ Riddell, Elizabeth (5 January 1980). "Rich Little Poor Girl". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.
  24. ↑ Whitman, Aiden (22 July 1979). "Nancy Cunard: Bewitching, Fearless, Pathetic". Newsday (Suffolk Edition). p. 24 – via Newspapers.com.
  25. ↑ Williams, David (19 July 1979). "Impossible charmer". The Daily Telegraph. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  26. ↑ GHB (6 August 1985). "Nuclear nightmare". Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  27. ↑ "Bombast and the big bomb". The Guardian. 8 August 1985. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  28. ↑ Jones, Margaret (10 August 1985). "The triumph and the tragedy of do-goodism". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 47 – via Newspapers.com.
  29. ↑ "A press baron seduced by his own headlines". The Age. 17 April 1993. p. Extra-8 – via Newspapers.com.
  30. ↑ Brendon, Piers (1993). "The imperious cheerleader -- Lord Beaverbrook: A Life by Anne Chisholm and Michael Davie". Columbia Journalism Review. Vol. 32, no. 1. p. 73. ProQuest 230340192.
  31. ↑ Charters, David (8 October 1992). "Beaver with stained claws". Daily Post (3 a.m. ed.). p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  32. ↑ De Groot, Gerard J. (1993). "Review of Beaverbrook: A Life". The International History Review. 15 (4). Taylor & Francis, Ltd.: 832–834. ISSN 0707-5332. JSTOR 40106829.
  33. ↑ Doyle, Peter (1993). "Arts & leisure: Books". Europe. No. 329. p. 44. ProQuest 222978777.
  34. ↑ Foot, Michael (1 October 1992). "The power of seduction". Evening Standard. p. 45 – via Newspapers.com.
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  36. ↑ Hinchliffe, Peter (3 October 1992). "'A devoted tiger - a very scarce breed'". Huddersfield Daily Examiner. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  37. ↑ Jenkins, Roy (11 October 1992). "A scintillating spider". The Observer. p. 59 – via Newspapers.com.
  38. ↑ "The Max factor: Lord Beaverbrook: A life by Anne Chisholm". The New Republic. Vol. 208, no. 19. 10 May 1993. p. 46. ProQuest 212885212.
  39. ↑ Pimlott, Ben (11 October 1992). "A genuine article that stirred the popular press". The Independent. p. 30 – via Newspapers.com.
  40. ↑ Startt, James D. (1994). "Review of Lord Beaverbrook: A Life". The Historian. 56 (3). Wiley: 581–582. ISSN 0018-2370. JSTOR 24448742.
  41. ↑ Tucker, Spencer (18 April 1993). "Media Mogul". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. p. D7 – via Newspapers.com.
  42. ↑ Vincent, John (4 October 1992). "Buying people, selling newspapers". Sunday Telegraph. p. XI – via Newspapers.com.
  43. ↑ Wilson-Smith, Anthony (5 April 1993). "Triumph of a colonial -- Beaverbrook: A Life by Anne Chisholm and Michael Davie". Maclean's. Vol. 106, no. 14. p. 58. ProQuest 218481897.
  44. ↑ Cart, Michael (1999). "Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life". The Booklist. Vol. 95, no. 22. pp. 2010–2011. ProQuest 235426631.
  45. ↑ Chisholm, Kate (24 May 1998). "Monkeys at the lunch party". Sunday Telegraph. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  46. ↑ Gébler, Carlo (2000). "Review of Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life". Fortnight (382). Fortnight Publications Ltd.: 32–32. ISSN 0141-7762. JSTOR 25559812.
  47. ↑ King, Francis (1998). "Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life". Biography. Vol. 21, no. 4. p. 555. ProQuest 215624379.
  48. ↑ Lively, Penelope (23 May 1998). "If only she'd been born later". The Daily Telegraph. p. A2 – via Newspapers.com.
  49. ↑ Long, Joanna Rudge (2000). "Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life". The Horn Book Magazine. Vol. 76, no. 1. pp. 104–105. ProQuest 199259983.
  50. ↑ Sutherland, Sean (17 October 1998). "The life of a storyteller". The Ottawa Citizen. p. 133 – via Newspapers.com.
  51. ↑ Walker, Robert (22 August 1998). "Biography maps author's long productive life". The Expositor. p. E9 – via Newspapers.com.
  52. ↑ Dennison, Matthew (18 April 2009). "The last of the Bloomsburies". The Daily Telegraph. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
  53. ↑ Hirst, Christopher (29 April 2010). "Frances Partridge: The Biography, By Anne Chisholm". The Independent. Archived from the original on 3 February 2026. Retrieved 23 September 2026.
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  55. ↑ Sexton, David (6 April 2009). "The kinder face of Bloomsbury". Evening Standard. p. 37 – via Newspapers.com.
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  58. ↑ Skipwith, Peyton (2018). "Review of Carrington's Letters: Her Art, Her Loves, Her Friendships". The Burlington Magazine. 160 (1383). Burlington Magazine Publications Ltd.: 523–524. ISSN 0007-6287. JSTOR 44870617.
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