Episode 4: Readings
In Episode 4, award-winning writer, Melanie McGrath reads extracts from Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and from her letters to Gilbert Imlay.
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Biography
Melanie McGrath is an award-winning writer of fiction and nonfiction. She won the John Llewellyn-Rhys-Mail on Sunday award for her first book, Motel Nirvana. As MJ McGrath she writes the acclaimed Edie Kiglatuk series of Arctic mysteries, White Heat, The Boy in the Snow and The Boneseeker, twice longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger and picked as Times and Financial Times thrillers of the year. The series is currently in development for TV in the USA. As Melanie McGrath she wrote the critically acclaimed and bestselling family memoir Silvertown. As Mel McGrath she is the author of the bestselling psychological thrillers Give Me The Child and The Guilty Party.
She has been a documentary TV producer for Channel Four and presenter of Trailblazers for The Discovery Channel and has written for HBO in the USA. She has also written for the nationals in the UK, USA and Canada and taught creative writing.
The New York Times called her ‘wickedly talented.’
Melanie is an experienced journalist, broadcaster, teacher, event organizer and speaker, with particular interests in London, literature, crime, feminism and psychology.
www.melaniemcgrath.com
@mcgrathmj
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