Victoria Glendinning is the author of several biographies: Elizabeth Bowen (1977); Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn among Lions (which won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, 1981); Vita, a life of Vita Sackville-West (joint winner of the Whitbread Award for the best biography, 1983); Rebecca West (1987); and Jonathan Swift (1998). She writes reviews and articles for The Times, the Daily Telegraph and other periodicals, and lives in London and West Cork.

"Glendinning succeeds, as no biographer has done before, in bringing him to life on the page-Here, at last, is an Anthony Trollope whom one can know as a man-The effect is startlingly impressive." -- Jonathan Raban, Independent on Sunday "'Enormously enjoyable'" -- John Mortimer, Books of the Year Sunday Times "Full of fascinating knowledge about the Victorian age in England-A great story superbly told.'" -- Augustine Martin, Irish Times "As compelling readable as any of Anthony's own novels.'" -- Ruth Rendell, Sunday Express "I came to this biography of Trollope with unreasonably high expectations. They were amply fulfilled-A work as readable, richly shifting and well-shaped as a good novel-compendiously well-informed.'" -- Caroline Moore, The Times