Isabel Fonseca was born and raised in New York City. She was educated at Barnard College and Oxford University. Since the early 1980s, she has made her home mostly in England, where she worked in publishing and then as an editor at the Times Literary Supplement. Her journalism has appeared in a wide range of publications, from The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal to The New Yorker and Vogue. She lives in London with her husband, Martin Amis, and their two daughters.
