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For the American historian, see Linda Grant DePauw.

English novelist and journalist

Linda GrantFRSL (born 15 February 1951) is an English novelist and journalist.

Early life

Linda Grant was born in Liverpool. She was the oldest child of Benny Ginsberg, a businessman who made and sold hairdressing products, and Rose Haft; both parents had immigrant backgrounds – Benny's family was Polish-Jewish, Rose's Russian-Jewish – and they adopted the surname Grant in the early 1950s.^[1]

She was educated at The Belvedere School, read English at the University of York (1972 to 1975), then completed an M.A.

in English at McMaster University in Canada. She did post-graduate studies at Simon Fraser University.^[2]

Career

In 1985, Grant returned to England and became a journalist, working for The Guardian, and eventually wrote her own column for eighteen months.^[3] She published her first book, a non-fiction work, Sexing the Mil