Marina Warner's mother was Italian and her father English, and she was brought up in Egypt, Belgium, and Cambridge, England. She has been a writer since she was young, specializing in mythology and fairy-tales, with an emphasis on the part women play in them. Her award-winning books include Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (1976), From the Beast to the Blonde (1994) and Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media (2006), a study of phantasms and modern technologies. In 1994 she gave the BBC Reith Lectures. She has published several novels: The Lost Father (1988), Indigo (1992), and The Leto Bundle (2000), as well as two collections of short stories. She is Professor of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex. Her son, Conrad Shawcross, is a sculptor; her partner, Graeme Segal, a mathematician
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