Ann Wroe FRSL is an English author and columnist who has been the obituaries editor of The Economist since 2003.
[3][4][5][6] After completing her university education, she worked at the BBC World Service covering French and Italian news.
Obituaries Wroe has written include subjects Hunter S. Thompson, Arthur Miller, Prince, Paul Newman, and Osama bin Laden.
[12] Wroe has published several non-fiction books including biographies of Pontius Pilate, Percy Shelley, and Perkin Warbeck.
[13] Her 2011 book on the subject of the mythological figure of Orpheus, entitled Orpheus: The Song of Life, won the London Hellenic Prize (then called the Criticos Prize),[14] and was described by John Banville as "a book of wonders, learned, playful and passionate.