Victoria Glendinning CBE FRSL (née Seebohm; born 23 April 1937) is a British biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist.
Glendinning grew up near York and, after being privately educated at Millfield School in Somerset, went up to Somerville College, Oxford, to read Modern Languages.
She is the only person to have won the Whitbread Prize (now the Costa Book Award) for biography twice, for her works on Vita Sackville-West (1983) and Anthony Trollope (1992).
[3] She won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981 for her biography of Edith Sitwell.
Her second husband Terence de Vere White, father of Dervla Murphy's only child, died of Parkinson's disease in 1994.