CAROLA HICKS
Carola Hicks studied archaeology and history of art at Edinburgh University, where she graduated with a First, then did a doctorate in medieval art. Her many jobs have included a brief stint on the stage, working for the Reader's Digest and Woman's Own, and being a researcher at the British Museum and at the House of Commons Library. She then became curator of the Stained Glass Museum at Ely before returning to academic life to teach art history to undergraduate and adult students at the University of Cambridge, where she is currently a Director of Studies at Newnham College.
Her art historical books include Animals in Early Medieval Art (1993) and Discovering Stained Glass (1996) and she edited England in the Eleventh Century (1992) and Cambridgeshire Churches.(1997). She turned to biography with Improper Pursuits: the Scandalous Life of Lady Di Beauclerk, the life of an 18th-century aristocratic artist. Her latest book is The Biography of the Bayeux Tapestry(Chatto & Windus, forthcoming) which presents the long 'life story' of the famous hanging and the brief lives of the many people who have been involved with it. She is married, with two children, and lives in London and Cambridge.
Agent: Clare Alexander at Gillon Aitken Associates, 18-21 Cavaye Place, London SW10 9PT.
