Lucy Daniel is a reviewer and critic who has published widely on twentieth-century and contemporary fiction. Her essays, articles and reviews have appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Time Out, Mslexia and FT Magazine. She wrote her doctoral thesis on the cultural contexts for reading modernism, and has taught English literature at University College, London. She has also helped edit an encyclopaedia of censorship, and now works as a freelance editor. She is currently writing a monograph on Gertrude Stein.