Sara Maitland
, b. 1950
Sara Maitland is a British writer of short stories, novels and autobiographical works of non-fiction on a range of subjects, including religion, feminism, fairy tale and myth. The second of six children, she grew up in London and south west Scotland. She began studying English at Oxford University in 1968, where she met and befriended former US president Bill Clinton. Her first novel, Daughter of Jerusalem (1976) won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1978. She married a vicar and had two children. For the past two decades, she has lived alone in a remote farmhouse on an isolated moor in Galloway, Scotland. Recent works, including A Book of Silence (2010) and How to Be Alone: The School of Life (2013), have explored her experience of solitude and silence.
Sources:
Official website (accessed: October 20, 2020).
Kate Kellaway, Sara Maitland: 'My subconscious was cleverer than my conscious in choosing to live alone', theguardian.com, published February 2, 2014 (accessed: October 20, 2020).
Bio prepared by Miriam Riverlea, University of New England, mriverlea@gmail.com
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