Alexandra Pringle

Alexandra joined Bloomsbury in 1999 and was Editor-in-Chief for 20 years. Her list of Nobel, Booker, Women’s Prize-winning and bestselling authors includes Richard Ford, Esther Freud, Elizabeth Gilbert, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, Madeline Miller, Ann Patchett, George Saunders, Kamila Shamsie, Ahdaf Soueif and Patti Smith. She is on the Advisory Board of the Bradford Literature Festival, a Patron of Index on Censorship, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Fiction at Manchester Metropolitan Festival. She is writing a memoir, Caravan, to be published in the UK and US in 2027.