Lucy Angela Hughes-Hallett (born 7 December 1951)[1] is a British cultural historian, biographer[2] and novelist.
In November 2013, she won the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction for her biography of the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio, The Pike.
[6] Lucy Hughes-Hallett has written four works of nonfiction: Cleopatra, Heroes, The Pike: Gabriele d'Annunzio, and The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham.
Hughes-Hallett was a Vogue Talent Contest prizewinner in 1973 and subsequently worked for five years as a feature writer on the magazine.
Since then she has written on books and arts for all of the British broadsheet newspapers including The Sunday Times and The Guardian.