Midge Gillies (fl. c. 2000) is a British journalist, biographer and creative writing tutor.
She was educated at Girton College, Cambridge. She has written extensively for newspapers including The Guardian and the Los Angeles Times. She is the author of seven books, including biographies of the British music hall star Marie Lloyd and the pioneer woman aviator Amy Johnson. Nicholas Lezard reviewed The Barbed-Wire University in The Guardian, calling it "a moving and eye-opening account of the lives of second world war [sic] PoWs by the daughter of a man who was captured."[1] For three years she was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge and is currently Academic Director for Creative Writing at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education.
midge, gillies, 2000, british, journalist, biographer, creative, writing, tutor, educated, girton, college, cambridge, written, extensively, newspapers, including, guardian, angeles, times, author, seven, books, including, biographies, british, music, hall, st. Midge Gillies fl c 2000 is a British journalist biographer and creative writing tutor She was educated at Girton College Cambridge She has written extensively for newspapers including The Guardian and the Los Angeles Times She is the author of seven books including biographies of the British music hall star Marie Lloyd and the pioneer woman aviator Amy Johnson Nicholas Lezard reviewed The Barbed Wire University in The Guardian calling it a moving and eye opening account of the lives of second world war sic PoWs by the daughter of a man who was captured 1 For three years she was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Magdalene College Cambridge and is currently Academic Director for Creative Writing at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education Gillies is married and lives in Ely Major works editThe Wedding Book Bloomsbury 1997 ISBN 0 297 82982 3 Business Writing Marshall Publishing 1999 ISBN 1 84028 281 9 Marie Lloyd The One and Only Gollancz 1999 ISBN 0 575 06420 X Amy Johnson Queen of the Air Weidenfeld amp Nicolson 2003 ISBN 0 297 82982 3 Waiting For Hitler Voices From Britain on the Brink of Invasion Hodder amp Stoughton 2006 ISBN 0 340 83798 5 How to write Memoir amp Biographies Guardian News amp Media 2008 Writing Lives Literary Biography Cambridge University Press 2009 ISBN 978 0521732314 The Barbed Wire University The Real Lives of Allied Prisoners of War in the Second World War Aurum 2011 She was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Magdalene College Cambridge For three years and is currently Academic Director for Creative Writing at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education References edit The Barbed Wire University by Midge Gillies review The Guardian 12 June 2012 nbsp This article about a non fiction writer from the United Kingdom or one of its constituent countries is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Midge Gillies amp oldid 1184459402, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
