Natasha Walter is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, a journalist and human rights campaigner.
She is a graduate of Cambridge and Harvard, and has worked as a columnist, reviewer and feature writer for the Guardian, Vogue and the Independent. Natasha is the founder of the charity Women for Refugee Women, where she was the director for 15 years.
Her most recent book, Before the Light Fades: A Memoir of Grief and Resistance, was published by Virago in August 2023. It explores Natasha's grief following her mother's suicide, and her family's legacy of political resistance.
Her first book, THE NEW FEMINISM (Virago), was published in 1998. In 2010 she published LIVING DOLLS: THE RETURN OF SEXISM (also Virago), which examines the resurgence of sexism in contemporary culture. Her first novel, A QUIET LIFE, loosely based on the life of Melinda Marling, the wife of Cambridge spy Donald Maclean, was published by Borough Press in 2016.
She has been a judge on the Booker Prize and the Women's Prize for fiction.
In 2015 Natasha was Humanitas Visiting Professor of Women's Rights at Cambridge University.
