Shusha Guppy was born and brought up in Iran. She went to Paris when she was 17 to study at the Sorbonne, and moved to London in the early 1960s. London editor of The Paris Review, she contributed to publications on both sides of the Atlantic. A well-known writer and singer/songwriter, she was the author of the prize winning The Blindfold Horse and A Girl in Paris. She died in 2008, aged 72.
