Lynn Knight is the author of the biography Clarice Cliff; a memoir, Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue: The Story of an Accidental Family; and The Button Box: The Story of Women in the 20th Century Told Through the Clothes They Wore. She has edited two collections of short stories, The Secret Woman: Classic Stories by Twentieth-Century Women Writers and Dangerous Calm: The Selected Stories of Elizabeth Taylor and abridged The Diaries of Beatrice Webb. She has worked as a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen Mary University of London and at the British Library and currently hosts an RLF 'Reading Round' group. She lives in London.