Author Bio
• Birth—1971
• Where—Manchester, England, UK
• Education—University of Manchester
• Currently—lives in Cambridge, England
Sophie Hannah is a British poet and fiction writer — with more than 15 novels (mostly mysteries), a dozen volumes of short stories and/or poetry, as well as several children's books. She was born in Manchester, England; her father was the academic Norman Geras and her mother the author Adele Geras. Hannah attended the University of Manchester.
At only 24, Hannah published her first book of poems, The Hero and the Girl Next Door and has gone on to publish others. In 2004, she was named one of the Poetry Book Society's Next Generation poets. Her poems are studied at GCSE, A-level and degree level across the UK.
In 2006 she turned to writing psychological crime novels, starting with Little Face, which has sold more than 100,000 copies. That novel was the first of 10 featuring detectives Simon Waterhouse and Charlie Zailer. Two of those novels — The Point of Rescue (2008) and The Other Half Lives (2009) were adapted into the TV series Case Sensitive, starring Darren Boyd (as Waterhouse) and Olivia Williams (as Zailer).
Recognition
From 1997 to 1999 Hannah was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, and between 1999 and 2001 a junior research fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.
She lives with her husband and two children in Cambridge where she is a Fellow Commonor of Lucy Cavendish College. (Adapted from Wikipedia. Retrieved 10/5/2017.)