Miranda Seymour, celebrated as a biographer, novelist, memoir-writer and critic, is a Fellow both of the Royal Society of Literature, and of Arts. She also holds a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship. Seymour is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts. She is the author of the award-winning memoir, In My Father's House.

Her many acclaimed biographies include: A Ring of Conspirators, an innovative study of Henry James and his literary circle; Ottoline Morrell: Life on a Grand Scale; Robert Graves: Life on the Edge; Mary Shelley; In Byron's Wake, The Bugatti Queen and I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys.