Erica Wagner FRSL is an American author and critic, living in London, England.

She moved to Britain in the 1980s to continue her education, first at St Paul's Girls' School, then at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (BA), and finally at the University of East Anglia (MA), where she was taught by Malcolm Bradbury and Rose Tremain.

She holds an honorary doctorate from the University of East Anglia and is Goldsmiths Distinguished Writers' Centre Fellow, an appointment made in January 2022.

[2] Her latest book is Mary and Mr Eliot: A Sort Of Love Story.

[3] She is the author of a biography of Washington Roebling, the engineer who constructed the Brooklyn Bridge.