Laura Thompson (British author)

Laura Thompson is an English writer and biographer. Her first book The Dogs: A Personal History of Greyhound Racing won the Somerset Maugham Award. She has also written acclaimed biographies of Nancy Mitford and Agatha Christie, and true-crime books on the disappearance of Lord Lucan and on the 1920s cause celebres Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters.^[1][2][3]

Early life

As a teenager, Thompson intended to go into theatre and attended Tring Park School for the Performing Arts, where she trained in dance. She went on to study English at Merton College, Oxford.^[4]

Bibliography

Books

• The Dogs: A personal history of greyhound racing (1994)
• Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford the Biography (2003)
• Agatha Christie: An English Mystery (2007) (re-published in 2018 as Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life)
• The Six: The lives of the Mitford sisters (2016) (alternate title Take Six Girls)
• Rex v Edith: A Tale of Two Murders (2018) (alternate title A Tale of Two Murders: Guilt, Innocence, and the Execution of Edith Thompson)
• A Different Class of Murder: The Story of Lord Lucan (2018)
• The Last Landlady: An English Memoir (2019)
• Heiresses: The lives of the million dollar babies (2022)

Edited volumes

• Au Revoir Now Darlint: The Letters of Edith Thompson (2023)