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Anne Sebba is a British biographer, lecturer and journalist. She is the author of nine books: Jennie Churchill: Winston's American Mother, The Exiled Collector: William Bankes and the Making of an English Country House, Mother Teresa: Beyond the Image, Battling For News, Laura Ashley: A Life By Design, Enid Bagnold: A Life and Samplers, as well as two children's books, biographies of Mother Teresa and Margot Fonteyn. Sebba has written for the Times Educational Supplement and The Independent, and worked as a correspondent for Reuters. She has been cited as an authority on biography.

Jennie Churchill: Winston's American Mother was reviewed in The Independent, The Telegraph,, and The Scotsman, inter alia.

In 2009 Sebba wrote and presented The Daffodil Maiden on BBC Radio 3. It was the story of the pianist Harriet Cohen, who inspired the composer Arnold Bax when she wore a dress adorned with a single daffodil and became his mistress for the next 40 years.

In September 2009 Sebba joined the management committee of the Society of Authors. She has served on the judging panel of the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize.

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