Sarah Bakewell

Sarah Bakewell is an author of fiction and non-fiction. She was born in Bournemouth, England, but spent much of her early life travelling with her parents. She is also a teacher of fiction and non-fiction.

How to Live, a book about the life of essayist Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, was reviewed favourably on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2010 the book won the National Book Critics Circle Award in the Biography category.

She spent some of her young adulthood working in bookstores, and has worked at the Wellcome Library as a curator of early books for the History of Medicine.

Works

 * The English Dane (2005)
 * How to Live, or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer - a self-help book.
 * The Smart - fiction.