Sarah Perry

Sarah Perry is the internationally best selling author of the novels Melmouth, The Essex Serpent, After Me Comes the Flood, and Enlightenment, and the nonfiction Essex Girls. She is a winner of the Waterstone’s Book of the Year Awards and the British Book Awards, and has been nominated for major literary prizes including the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Folio Prize and the Costa Novel Award.

Her essays have been widely published, and she has contributed to the Guardian, the New York Times, the Observer, and the London Review of Books.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has a PhD in Creative Writing, and has been a UNESCO City of Literature Writer in Residence in Prague, and a Writer in Residence at Gladstone’s Library and the Savoy Hotel in London.

Her second novel, the No. 1 bestseller The Essex Serpent, was adapted for television by Apple TV+, starring Claire Danes in the lead role.

Her first full-length work of nonfiction, Death of an Ordinary Man, will be released in Fall 2025 (Mariner Books).