Sarah Bakewell
Sarah Bakewell (* in the 20th century in Bournemouth, England) is an English author and curator.
Life
Bakewell went with her parents as a five -year trip around the world, for the time being in Sydney, New South Wales ended after two years in Australia. There, her father worked as a bookseller and her mother as a librarian. The second part of the round the world completed the family as a backpacker through the Pacific and the Americas.
Bakewell studied at the University of Essex, worked for years in bookstores and began in the early 1990s as a curator at the Wellcome Library in London. There she was responsible for early printed books and also published on topics from the early modern period. Another result of their work at the Wellcome Library was her first novel, The Smart about a counterfeiter process in the 18th century.
Another work Bakewell draws on the life of the Danish adventurer and sailor Jørgen Jurgensen. Your work on the life of Montaigne was awarded a prize and translated into German.
Bakewell lives in Clapham, south London, working off and on for the catalogs of the National Trust.
Prizes and awards
- 2010: Duff Cooper Prize for the UK How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer.
- 2011: the U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award for the same book.