Caroline Maclean grew up in London and studied English at Oxford, and lived in New York and Boston before dragging her American husband back to London. Her first book The Vogue for Russia (Edinburgh University Press, 2015) told the story of why Russian arts and literature appealed to British modernists like Virginia Woolf and Mary Butts. She has written for the London Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement.
Her group biography CIRCLES AND SQUARES: THE LIVES AND ART OF THE HAMPSTEAD MODERNISTS was published by Bloomsbury in April 2020.