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Philippa Gregory

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Born in Kenya in 1954, Philippa Gregory moved to England with her family and was educated in Bristol and at the National Council for the Training of Journalists course in Cardiff. She worked as a senior reporter on the Portsmouth News, and as a journalist and producer for BBC Radio.

Philippa obtained a BA degree in History at the University of Sussex in Brighton and a PhD at Edinburgh University in 18th-century literature. Her first novel, Wideacre, was written as she completed her PhD and became an instant worldwide bestseller. On its publication, she became a full-time writer.

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Antonia Hylton

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Antonia Hylton is the author of MADNESS: Race and Insanity in Jim Crow Asylum. She's a Peabody and two-time Emmy award-winning Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC and the cohost of the hit podcasts Southlake and Grapevine. From 2016 to 2020, Antonia was a Correspondent and Producer for Vice Media and HBO's nightly news and documentary show, Vice News Tonight. Since 2019, she has also served as an annual judge for the American Mosaic Journalism Prize. Antonia's won several awards, including an Emmy for the HBO special episode on the family separation crisis, two Gracie Awards for her stories about...