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For the American historian, see Linda Grant DePauw.

English novelist and journalist

Linda GrantFRSL (born 15 February ) 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 s.^[1]

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

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

Career

In , 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 Millennium: A Political History of