Lisa Appignanesi
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| Born | Łódź, Poland |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British/Canadian |
| Ethnicity | Mixed |
| Alma mater | McGill University University of Sussex |
| Notable works | Losing the Dead, Mad, Bad and Sad |
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Lisa Appignanesi OBE FRSL is a British writer, novelist, and campaigner for free expression. She is the Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, a former President of English PEN and former Chair of the Trustees of the Freud Museum in London. She is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English at King's College London, and held a Wellcome Trust People Award there for her public series on The Brain and the Mind. Her book Mad, Bad, and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors won the 2009 British Medical Association Award for the Public Understanding of Science, among other prizes.
She was born Elżbieta Borensztejn on 4 January 1946 in Łódź, Poland, the daughter of Hena and Aaron Borensztejn. Following her birth, her parents moved to Paris, France, and in 1951 emigrated to Montreal, Canada, where she grew up.
She studied at McGill University in Montreal, where she was a features editor for The McGill Daily. In 1966, she earned her BA and in 1967 her MA (with a thesis on Edgar Allan Poe) and married writer Richard Appignanesi. After their marriage the couple moved to England, where she obtained a DPhil degree in Comparative Literature at the University of Sussex in 1970. During this period she spent some time in Paris and Vienna, and wrote the thesis that became the book Proust, Musil and Henry James: femininity and the creative imagination, which was published in 1974. The couple had one son, film director Josh Appignanesi; they separated in 1981 and divorced in 1984.
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