is a writer and journalist, the author of four literary biographies. A lifelong Londoner, Selina was educated at St Paul’s Girls’ School and Oxford University. Her first job was at Hatchard’s bookshop, after which she worked for fourteen years on the Daily Telegraph and for eight years was literary editor of Harper's & Queen. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she reviews regularly and has been a judge of the Booker, Whitbread, British Academy, Ondaatje and Duff Cooper Prizes, and of the UK Biographers’ Award. She has written biographies of Somerset Maugham, Evelyn Waugh, Nancy Mitford and Rosamond Lehman.

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