Fiona Sampson is a prize-winning poet and writer. She has been published in more than thirty languages and received an MBE for services to literature. A Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature, and the recipient of a number of national and international honours for her poetry, she has worked as an editor, translator, and university professor as well as a violinist. www.fionasampson.co.uk
If we get another literary biography in 2018 as astute and feelingful as this one, we shall be lucky. * Sunday Times * Gripping, vivid ... a fascinating book * The Times * Daringly swift and enjoyably irreverent * Observer * Sampson is as adept as Frankenstein himself, giving life to a figure who convincingly aches and bleeds * Guardian *