Sarah Churchwell is a Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at UEA. She received her PhD in English and American Literature from Princeton University and is the author of The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe (Granta: 2004), as well as various scholarly articles on topics such as Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Plath and Hughes, Janis Joplin, and Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; she also has written introductions to new editions of classic American texts including Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Collected Short Stories.

She has a monthly column on film for Psychologies magazine, and writes about books and films for a range of newspapers and magazines, including the Guardian, the Independent, the Observer, the TLS, the New York Times Book Review, The Times, the New Statesman, the Liberal, and the Spectator. She frequently appears on television and radio as a reviewer and cultural critic, including as a regular panelist on The Review Show (formerly Newsnight Review, BBC2). In 2010 she is a judge for the David Cohen prize for Literature, and in 2009 was a judge for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She is currently writing a book about F. Scott Fitzgerald and the true story behind The Great Gatsby.