Selkirk's Island

Diana Souhami (born 25 August 1940) is an English biographer, playwright, and author of short stories, best known for her unconventional biographies of prominent lesbians such as Gluck, Gertrude and Alice, The Trials of Radclyffe Hall, Wild Girls, and No Modernism Without Lesbians. Literature. Her works have won the Whitbread Biography Award for Selkirk's Island, Lambda Literary Awards, the Polari Prize, and she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2024.