Valerie Waterhouse

Valerie Waterhouse is a PhD Researcher at the University of Salford, writing a biography of Bradford author Malachi Whitaker (1895-1976). She is the Literary Executor for Whitaker’s estate. In 2025, she was awarded the inaugural Biographers International Organization Kitty Kelley Dissertation Fellowship, for her ongoing biographical work. She is the author of the Afterword for the new edition of Whitaker’s 1939 memoir , And So Did I . In 2019, with Bradford Civic Society, she co-organised the installation of a Blue Plaque at Whitaker’s birthplace house in Wrose. Later this year, she will be delivering a lecture on Whitaker for Cambridge University’s Literature Cambridge Online. She grew up in West Yorkshire and previously spoke about Whitaker at Bradford Literature Festival in 2018.