Anne Sebba was born in 1951 in London. She is a biographer and a journalist. Her discovery of letters between Wallis Simpson and Ernest Simpson formed the basis of the Channel 4 documentary The Secret Letters.
Sitting on a camp bed, mesmerised by a teacher reading John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. It must have been a children’s version but, terrified and enthralled by the image of a Christian making his way through the Slough of Despond, I have never forgotten the power of storytelling.
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