Caroline Alexander

Caroline Alexander was born in Florida, of British parents, and has lived in Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. She studied philosophy and theology at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and has a doctorate in classics from Columbia University, eventually founding a department of Classics in Malawi over several years. She has written for most major newspapers and magazines, chiefly the New Yorker, Granta, and National Geographic. Her latest book, The Endurance, was a bestseller and has been translated into 13 languages.