Kassia St Clair

Writer and cultural historian Kassia St. Clair is based in London and is Britain’s bestselling historian under 40. She specializes in telling gripping stories about the overlooked and the everyday. Her first book, The Secret Lives of Colour, is a top-ten bestseller, was selected as Radio 4′s Book of the Week and has been translated into twenty languages. The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History was a Radio 4 Book of the Week, a Sunday Times Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Somerset Maugham Award. Her third book, The Race to the Future, will be published in the UK on November 9th 2023 and in the US in early 2024. For more information visit http://kassiastclair.com/ or follow her on Twitter and Threads, @kassiastclair