Andrea Ashworth

Andrea Ashworth (born 1969) is a British writer and academic, best known for her memoir Once in a House on Fire, which won the Somerset Maugham Award from the Society of Authors in 1999.

Life

Ashworth was born in Manchester in 1969.^[1] She studied at Hertford College, Oxford, where she was a scholar.^[2] She later became a Junior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford.^[3] Once in a House on Fire, published in 1998, won the Somerset Maugham Award from the Society of Authors in 1999.^[4] It tells the story of her traumatic upbringing and the abuse that she suffered at the hands of her two stepfathers.^[3]

References

1. ^ "Andrea Ashworth". Pan MacMillan. 2005. http://www.panmacmillan.com/Authors%20Illustrators/displayPage.asp?PageTitle=Individual%20Contributor&ContributorID=70557&RLE=Author. Retrieved 17 April 2009. 
2. ^ "Colleges, Halls and Societies". Oxford University Gazette (University of Oxford) 124 (4328). 26 May 1994. http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/backissues/9394/260594/coll.txt. Retrieved 17 April 2009. ^{[dead link]}
3. ^ ^{a b} "A phoenix from the ashes". The Oxford Student. 8 June 2000. http://www.oxfordstudent.com/tt2000wk6/Features/a_phoenix_from_the_ashes. Retrieved 18 April 2009. ^{[dead link]}
4. ^ "Somerset Maugham Awards – Past winners". Society of Authors. 2009. http://www.societyofauthors.net/prizes-grants-and-awards/prizes-for-fiction-and-non-fiction/the_somerset_maugham_awards/somerset_maugham_past_winners.html. Retrieved 18 April 2009. ^{[dead link]}

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