Gillian Catherine Gill (née Scobie, born June 12, 1942) is a Welsh-American writer and academic who specializes in biography.
[1] She is the author of Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries (1990); Mary Baker Eddy (1998); Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale (2004); We Two: Victoria and Albert, Rulers, Partners, Rivals (2009) and Virginia Woolf: And the Women Who Shaped Her World (2019).
Born Gillian Catherine Scobie in Cardiff, Wales to William E. and Esme C. Scobie,[2] Gill attended Cardiff High School for Girls and graduated from New Hall at the University of Cambridge with a first-class honours degree in French, Italian, and Latin.
[3][1] In March 1972, she obtained her Ph.D., also from Cambridge, for a thesis entitled André Malraux: A Study of a Novelist.
[4] After marrying, she emigrated to the United States and taught at Northeastern University, Wellesley, Harvard, and Yale, where she was a fellow of Jonathan Edwards College and director of the Women's Studies Program.