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Mark Bostridge is a British biographer and critic. He was born in 1960 and is the brother of the tenor Ian Bostridge. He was educated at the University of Oxford, where he was awarded the Gladstone Memorial Prize.

His first book was Vera Brittain: A Life, co-written with Paul Berry and published in 1995. This biography of the writer Vera Brittain was shortlisted for the two major non-fiction prizes of its day, the Whitbread Prize and the NCR Book Award. Bostridge's next Brittain project was a collaboration with Alan Bishop. Their edition of her letters was published in 1998 as Letters from a Lost Generation, and Bostridge adapted the letters for a BBC Radio Four series starring Amanda Root as Vera Brittain and Rupert Graves as Roland Leighton.

Bostridge's Lives For Sale, an anthology of biographers' tales, was published in 2004. In 2008 he published Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend, the first major biography of Florence Nightingale in over half-a-century, which was awarded the 2009 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, and named as a Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2008.

In 2008, Bostridge also published Because You Died, a selection of Vera Brittain's First World War poetry and prose, to mark the ninetieth anniversary of the Armistice. In May 2009 Screen Daily reported that he was working closely with BBC Films on a screen adaptation of Testament of Youth.