Ophelia Field was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and the London School of Economics. She has worked for a variety of refugee and human rights organisations for many years and is the Director of the Writers in Prison Programme at the English Centre of PEN. Ophelia is the author of The Favourite: Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, and has written for the TLS, Literary Review and Sunday Telegraph. Her work on the Kit-Cat Club was awarded the inaugural Elizabeth Longford grant for biographical research in 2003.
