Katherine Rundell

Katherine Rundell spent her childhood in Africa and Europe and is now a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where she works on Renaissance literature. She is the bestselling author of The Wolf Wilder, The Girl Savage and Rooftoppers, which won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award in 2014 and was shortlisted for many others. Her writing – mostly on books, but also on climbing, on art and on wolves – has appeared in the London Review of Books, The New York Times, the Telegraph and Intelligent Life.