Jean Findlay
Author of historical fiction

Jean Findlay was born in Edinburgh. She studied Law and French at Edinburgh University and Theatre under Tadeusz Kantor in Cracow, Poland. She co-founded an award winning theatre company and wrote and produced plays which toured to London, Berlin, Bonn, Rotterdam, Dublin, Glasgow and the Pompidou Centre in Paris. She wrote drama and book reviews for the Scotsman, and has written for the Independent, Time Out, the Guardian and Performance magazine. For work in progress on Chasing Lost Time she won a Hyam Wingate Award, an Authors Foundation Award and was shortlisted for the Alistair Horne Fellowship at Oxford University. Chasing Lost Time was published by Pan Macmillan in the US and was shortlisted for a Lambda Award, New York 2016.

She has since published Ant, Three Plays and The Queen’s Lender. The Queen’s Lender was long listed for the HWA Crown Debut.