Sarah Bakewell

Sarah Bakewell is a British writer and teacher with a background in bookselling and curating early printed books.

She gained recognition for her biographies, including "The Smart" and "The English Dane." Her book "How to Live: A Life of Montaigne" won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and became a bestseller.

Bakewell's writing style is praised for making complex philosophical ideas accessible to general readers.

She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Oxford's Kellogg College.

Her work often explores the intersection of philosophy, biography, and history, bringing historical figures and their ideas to life for contemporary audiences.