Stephanie Merritt
1974
Stephanie Jane Merritt is an accomplished feature writer and an English critic who has contributed to numerous publications such as the Daily Telegraph, The Times, New Humanist and The New Statesman. She worked from 1998 to 2005 as the Observer’s deputy Literary Editor. Currently, she works for two of the leading publication the Guardian and the Observer. Merritt is an English graduate from Queens College. Her very first novel, Gaveston, scooped the Betty Task Award in the year 2002 from the Society of Authors. Merritt’s second novel was released later on and it was about a struggling playwright. After releasing the book, it was announced that the book was going to be adopted into a movie and she was commissioned to write the screen play for the movie.