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Charlotte Jane Mendelson (born 1 November 1972) is an English novelist and editor. She was placed 60th on the Independent on Sunday Pink List 2007.

Biography

Charlotte Mendelson was born on 1 November 1972 in London, the daughter of a barrister, Maurice Harvey Mendelson. Mendelson's family moved to Oxford when she was two, where her father taught at St John's College, Oxford. She attended Oxford High School and New College, Oxford where she received a BA in Ancient and Modern History. She was an editor at Jonathan Cape in 1996–1997 and at the Headline Review in 1998–2014.

Mendelson has been a visiting professor of creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London since 2017 and a gardening correspondent at the New Yorker since the same year. She became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018.

Bibliography

• Love in Idleness (2001)
• Daughters of Jerusalem (2003)
• When We Were Bad (2007)
• Almost English (2013)
• Rhapsody In Green (2016)
• The Exhibitionist (2022)
• Wife (2024)

Awards and nominations

• John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
• Somerset Maugham Award
• Sunday Times 'Young Writer of the Year (shortlisted)
• London Arts New London Writers’ Award
• K. Blundell Trust Award
• Le Prince Maurice Roman d’Amour Prize (shortlisted)
• Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (shortlisted)
• Man Booker Prize 2013 (longlisted)
• Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014 (longlisted)
• Women's Prize for Fiction 2022 (longlisted for The Exhibitionist)

Personal life

Mendelson lives in London. She has one son and one daughter.

References

1. "The pink list 2007: The IoS annual celebration of the great and the gay - This Britain, UK - the Independent". Archived from the original on 4 July 2008. Retrieved 26 April 2010.
2. ^ "Mendelson, Charlotte Jane, (born 1 Nov. 1972), novelist, since 2001". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2016. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U284489. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
3. ^ Edemariam, Aida (8 May 2007). "'I wasn't posh and I wasn't confident, and I was really hideous'". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
4. "Announcing the Women's Prize 2022 longlist!". Women's Prize for Fiction. 8 March 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2022.

External links

• Charlotte Mendelson Official Website
• Charlotte Mendelson at Picador
• Somethingjewish.co.uk interview Archived 22 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine

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