![]() Bakewell later completed a post-graduate degree on Artificial Intelligence. ![]() She embarked on a PhD on philosopher Martin Heidegger, but gave it up to move to London, where she initially found work at a tea-bag factory. īakewell studied philosophy at the University of Essex in England. As a child, she often wrote, and spent some of her young adulthood working in bookstores. There, her father worked as a bookseller and her mother worked as a librarian. When she was five, the family began travelling through India in a camper and continued to do so for two years before settling in Sydney, Australia. She received the Windham–Campbell Literature Prize in Non-Fiction.īakewell was born in the seaside town of Bournemouth, England, where her parents ran a small hotel. Sarah Bakewell (born 1963) is a British author and professor. ![]() Sarah Bakewell at the 2010 National Book Critics Circle awards. ![]()
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